Colocation facility

Colocation

From single servers to full racks, house your already-owned infrastructure in our data centres and enjoy the same security, accreditations, data centre reliability and connectivity as our bare metal cloud solutions – with the ability to provision additional infrastructure on-demand from our range of hardware offerings. Re-purpose your own IT infrastructure into our leading facilities without the headaches of managing a server environment.

Full & Partial Rack Colo

from £517.80/pm

Embark on a colocation journey with our Full & Partial Rack Colo services, providing a robust foundation for your hosting needs. Tailored for businesses seeking scalable solutions, these colocation options offer the perfect blend of security, reliability, and flexibility.
  • Quarter, Half and Full Racks available
  • Up to 5kw per rack
  • N+1 resilience across all sites
  • Carrier and cloud neutral
  • Multiple Tier 1 carriers on-site
  • Perfectly located sites across the UK
  • ISO 27001 certified

Shared Colocation

from £54.00/pm

Discover the benefits of Shared Colocation, an ideal solution for businesses looking for cost-effective hosting with shared resources. Enjoy a secure and reliable environment while optimizing your budget for essential hosting needs.
  • Shared colocation from 1U to 4U
  • Free Setup
  • 1Gbit Connectivity as standard
  • Low-cost unmetered bandwidth options
  • Fast & easy setup
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World-Class UK Facilities

Industry leading infrastructure, N+1 design, 24×7 staffing. All of our fully-owned and operated UK data centres meet ISO90001, ISO 27001 and ISO 20000 standards and have the levels of resilience and redundancy you would expect from an organisation responsible for over 30,000 physical appliances.

Ensure that your mission-critical servers and hardware are always available, and capable of coping with network demand, by placing them within our robust, scalable infrastructure.

Our UK colocation sites are: London, Manchester, Maidenhead, Nottingham, Gosport, and Glasgow.

Our Data Centres

We own and manage our own UK data centres. We have 12 right now. They’re incredibly secure – monitored and maintained 24/7 by our team of expert engineers. So, you’ll always have a safe space to store your data. And if data sovereignty is important to your business, we’ve got you covered.

Maidenhead Data Centre

Our Maidenhead data centre is situated on a purpose-built site near the centre of the town, offering high quality, resilient and secure space across eleven data halls.

Located outside the M25 the facility offers high-speed secure connections to a wide range of Tier 1 national and international carriers.

Key Features

  • Tier Rating – 3
  • IT Space – 2800 m²
  • CCTV & Intruder Detection Systems – Full site

Central London Data Centre

Our Central London Data Centre is located within the heart of the UK’s centre of global finance, offers an enterprise-class, resilient and highly secure computing environment.

  • A 1517m², tier 3 facility located at the heart of London’s square mile
  • The site has an 11000-volt power supply
  • Six 500kVA UPS backup systems in place with generator backup as a contingency
  • The data centre is manned and monitored on a 24x7x365 basis with extensive security controls in place at all times

North London Data Centre

Our North London data centre is just 6km from central London and provides best-in-class, carrier-neutral collation network connectivity and streaming media satellite services to a large array of clients from its enterprise-grade facility.

  • Three 200kVA UPS in place as well as a generator contingency
  • Data Centre is manned and monitored on a 24 x 7 x 365 basis

Manchester Data Centres

Our Manchester data centres are located on a purpose-built technology park, just south of the city centre.

Customers using our Manchester data centres enjoy high-speed secure connections to a wide range of Tier 1 national and international carriers as well as the city’s own dedicated fibre-optic network, The Loop.

Manchester DC6

  • Tier Rating – 2
  • IT Space – 300 m²
  • 2 x diverse fibre routing into the Data Centre via multiple carriers

Manchester DC7

  • Tier Rating – 2
  • IT Space – 280 m²
  • 2 x diverse fibre routing into the Data Centre via multiple carriers

Manchester DC13

  • Tier Rating – 2
  • IT Space – 540m²
  • 2 x diverse fibre routing into the Data Centre via multiple carriers

Glasgow Data Centre

Our Glasgow data centre was constructed especially for large-scale server hosting and colocation from our Scotland-based customers. 

  • A 768m², tier 2 facility, located close to Glasgow City Centre
  • The site has an 11000-volt power supply
  • 500kVA UPS in place with generator backup as a contingency
  • The data centre is manned and monitored on a 24x7x365 basis with extensive security controls in place at all times.

York Data Centre

Our York data centre is located less than two miles from the city centre.

Together with our national fibre ring, this allows us to build highly-available hosting solutions for businesses across the North West of England.

  • Tier Rating – 2
  • IT Space – 334 m²
  • CCTV & Intruder Detection Systems – Full site

Gosport Hampshire Data Centre

We operate two data centres in the Gosport area of Hampshire.

These data centres are connected to our other sites across the country via a private fibre ring.

Gosport DC9

Key Features

  • Tier Rating – 2
  • IT Space – 631 m²
  • CCTV & Intruder Detection Systems – Full site

Nottingham Data Centre

Our data centre is situated to the west of the city of Nottingham, less than half a kilometre from the main commercial and shopping district.

It offers high-quality, resilient and secure space. As with all of our highly secure centres, the facility is backed by our guaranteed service levels.

Key Features

  • Tier Rating – 2
  • IT Space – 400 m²
  • CCTV & Intruder Detection Systems – Full site

Leicester Data Centre

Our Leicester Data Centre is 1.5 miles north of central Lecister and is spread across two data halls and can arrange 24/7 access.

  • A 620m², tier 2 facility located less than two miles from Leicester city centre
  • The site has an 11000-volt power supply
  • Two 500kVA UPS back-up systems in place with generator back-up as contingency
Flexible networking

Flexible Networking

All colocation customers receive access to our industry-leading, wholly owned fibre network as well as our tier 1 transit and peering partners, including the ability to add additional infrastructure on demand.

Join your office connectivity to our network through a leased line and have the ultimate low-latency, low-cost UK WAN solution.

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Hybrid Cloud

Difficulty migrating, or need short term infrastructure to cater for high workloads?  Not an issue.

Our engineers can provision any hybrid cloud infrastructure you need, alongside your own colocated hardware. Integrate your colocated servers with any combination of dedicated servers in a hybrid environment that can be networked in a fully bespoke manner.

Reducing CO2 emissions

We’re committed to reducing our carbon footprint

We’re committed to continually improving our sustainability and holding ourselves to account on our environmental responsibilities.​ To this end, in the day-to-day running of our data centre, we use Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin (REGO).​​​ And we’ve just introduced a new cooling system in our London data centre that has reduced our carbon footprint by 30%.

​​We’re not stopping there, though. Because our goal is carbon neutral. To this end, we’ve signed up for an exclusive partnership with renewable engineering business Katrick Technology. And we’ve been working hard on state-of-the-art technology that will edge us closer to carbon neutrality. And reduce the carbon footprint of the entire data industry.