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We’re delighted to announce that Melbourne has been nominated and short-listed as a finalist for the prestigious Annual UK Internet Industry Awards.

According to the ISPA, “Competition for finalists’ places was particularly fierce this year with a record amount of entries from companies across the Internet sector. The announcement of the finalists follows three months of rigorous testing of entrants by ISPA’s technical testing partners, Epitiro”.

Melbourne strives to provide service that is reliable and predictable, and support that is personal, professional and consistent, so we’re delighted to have got this far and had the recognition of our hard work in creating a superior level of service for our customers. 

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added Tiscali International to our bandwidth provider list.

The advantage of TINet is its resilience from London, as TINet’s Manchester POP (to which we connect) has direct connectivity to Dublin (as opposed to just London like most providers), which then connects to the USA and Paris bypassing London, i.e. Manchester would still connect to the USA and to mainland Europe even in case of a major London outage.

This gives our Manchester customers a real advantage with fully London-diverse bandwidth delivery, something that few providers, even North-West based, can boast.

The Tiscali transit has already been added to our BGP routing so you’ll see some routes going over the Tiscali connection already.

This new connection is part of a significant programme of investment in the strengthening of our network which is underway this year.

Melbourne is pleased to announce that we have agreed a contract with premium Tier-1 network provider Level(3) for an additional gigabit port to their network.

This will bring our total external network capacity to almost 3Gbps, making us one of the best connected dedicated server providers in Manchester.

The new connectivity will come online from November, and will complement our existing transit mix of Tier-1 and Tier-2 providers and Manchester peering on MaNAP.

We’re pleased to announce that all servers have now been moved to our unique UltraFire™ enterprise-class firewall system. In simple terms this means customers using our firewall service, now have full control of their rules through a web-based interface.

Unlike many other providers, we do not charge extra for this service when added to our dedicated servers.
And because our firewalls are configured in failover pairs, you can be assured that even if hardware failure does occur, your sites will not go down.