RackSpot – An Excellent Choice For Dedicated Hosting

Posted by Web Hosting EU on March 30, 2011 0 comments

I’m glad that I can target your attention to a very good web hosting provider based out of Lisbon, Portugal. It is called Rackspot. I had a chance to meet the executive team of the company during the web hosting conference WorldHosting Days 2011 in Germany and i’m impressed of the way Nuno Viera, the CEO of the company and his team do business. Let me tell you why Rackspot is a good company to host for dedicated hosting.

The first good reason for this is that the company, owned by NFSI Telecom has an excellent data center located in Lisbon Portugal. You can have a virtual tour of Rackspot data center. The company have conveniently placed a video on their website.

RackSpot network – something many web hosts can not afford

The NFSI data center, the company that operates RackSpot has a plenty of IP transit providers which create an excellent network for the company’s customers.

RackSpot has 10 GbE lines to Tata Communications, Telia Sonera and 2 x 10 GbE to Cogent. It also maintains peering connections to GigaPIX – 2 x 10 GbE, to GigaPIX Porto – 1 GbE, to Espanix – 1 GbE and to Portugal Telecom – 1 GbE.

The company also has interconnections between its 3 data centers based out of Lisbon, Madrid and Porto. All 3 RackSpot operated data centers are connected with redundant 2 x 10 GbE lines.

You can trust the reliability of Rackspot’s netowork, not because my review or because their claim it is reliable. The Rackspot network is monitored by Netcraft, one of the most trusted monitoring bodies in Internet. You can see what is the average RTT to RackSpot datacenter sent from New York, Pensivania, Virginia, Phoenix (AR), San Jose, (CA) in the U.S., from Vancouver, Canada, London, United Kingdom, Romania and Italy.

Very good dedicated server offerings at nice prices

The dedicated server offerings of Rackspot definitely deserve your attention. The company has just released a Dedicated plans based on the new Intel processors I5 and I7. An Intel Core I5 2500 3.3Ghz powered server with 8GB DDR3 RAM and  2 X 1TB SATA3 Hard drives in RAID-1 plus  10,000 GB monthly bandwidth on a 100 Mbps port costs €125 per month (monthly payments) and €104/month (2 year contract).

Another dedicated server offering based on Intel Core i7 2600K 3.4GHz processor with 16 GB DDR RAM, Hybrid HDD and 2.5 GB monthly traffic connected at 100 Mbps port costs less than €200 euro (it is actually €185,42 per month on the 24 month contract). The reason for me not to be able to provide the monthly price of this solution is that at the time I’m writing this (March 30, 11.00 am GMT) those servers are currently sold-out. So you can imagine that there is a huge demand for such configurations. RackSpot seems to update their offerings a few times a week or even every day, but as you can imagine I would not go over this review to post their offerings. The best anyone who needs a reliable and powerful dedicated server solution could do is go to their website and to speak to them.

Telehouse To Offer Colocation Hosting And Managed Services From New Data Center In Istanbul

Posted by Web Hosting EU on March 8, 2011 0 comments

The data center and colocation hosting service provider Telehouse has opened a new data center in Istanbul, Turkey. The new facility is operated in partnership with the Turkish telecommunication company Teknotel. The facility named “Telehouse Istanbul” start operating this month. It is the first Telehouse’s data center in South Eastern Europe. It is a carrier neutral data centre facility, which is located in the Asian side of Istanbul. Teknotel will operate, support and maintain the telecommunication facility by applying Telehouse’s operating standards.

The new Istanbul facility is supplied by dual power feeds and will be able to provide 4–5 KW per rack. Telehouse offers managed hosting services and remote hands to company’s Istanbul clients. the company will be working on a second Istanbul data center in 2012, again in partnership with Teknotel.

“Opening a Telehouse facility in Istanbul is a superb opportunity for us to extend our range of products and services in the Turkish market. We are well-known for delivering communication solutions to our corporate customers and, with our Telehouse facility, we can now offer carrier neutral colocation too. Telehouse is the very best name in the international data centre and colocation market and the opening of Telehouse Istanbul comes at an important time when Turkey is opening up rapidly and connectivity, security and continuity are vital to companies located in the City”, said Alper Selcuk, General Manager of Teknotel.

According to Telehouse Turkey is an extremely important market for the company, because it is in the crossroad between Europe and Asia. Telehouse executives said that Teknotel is a reliable partner with the expertise, focus and willingness to carry the Telehouse brand.

Telehouse says it will continue to open data centers in countries in which the company can find a local partner with the capability to run high class facilities.

Reference: Telehouse is one of the world’s premier data center service providers. Its American entity operates the New York International Internet Exchange. The company has recently expanded its New York data center space. See article “New York Internet Exchange Expanded Into New Data Center”

Another excellent facility in the region of South-Eastern Europe is 3DC, a state-of-the-art carrier neutral data center based out of Sofia, Bulgaria. Among tenants which provide Colocation Hosting is Rax.bg, the longest running Bulgarian IT hosting provider. It operates fully redundant network and provide customers with a choice of global IP bandwidth providers and local peering for South Eastern Europe with direct connectivity to Turkish market.