You’ll be pleased to hear that we’ve now changed the inclusive bandwidth for all Dedicated Servers and UltraVM™ virtual servers, starting from September.

Servers now come with 1TB monthly transfer included as standard – that’s 5x the previous allowance of 200GB – without any price change.  Recently the wholesale bandwidth price has gone down and we wanted to pass this on to you.

Please note that this new allowance only applies at this time to our Dedicated Servers and UltraVM™ virtual servers, but will be rolled out to shared colocation in the coming months.  Rackspace customers can take advantage of reduced rates on wholesale (per Mbps) bandwidth by contacting us to renew their contracts.

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. 

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.

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.

From December we will have a gigabit port with Tier-1 provider Cogent. This is in addition to our existing connections: Level(3), KPN, Avensys, Internet Connections and MaNAP peering.

The additional transit will give us additional resilience and increased speed to certain destinations.

The improvement to the transit feed will be available to all dedicated server, colocation and IP transit customers from December.

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.