Category archives: The Web Hosting Industry
LINX (London Internet Exchange) Failure
The London Internet Exchange (LINX) suffered a major failure on Wednesday afternoon, leading to a significant slowdown of UK traffic. LINX acts as a main peering point for UK ISPs, allowing them to exchange traffic directly, which is cheaper than …
A brief word on honesty
It seems to be de rigeur in the hosting industry to upsell one’s infrastrucutre, in the process potentially making slightly misleading claims about datacentre and/or network ownership. Hopefully you wouldn’t expect this kind of behaviour from Melbourne, and rightly so. …
Big night at the big chip
On Thursday night we won the Big Green Chip Award at the Big Chip Awards. It was a fantastic night. As we near completion of our new data centre we wanted to generate more awareness of what Melbourne is and …
Melbourne shortlisted for Big Chip Green award
We have got through to the shortlisting stage for the Big Green Chip award for the Big Chip Awards. The Big Chips is the premier digital media awards in the North West of England. It is a real bonus for …
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The real era of virtualisation
The Institution of Engineering and Technology have quoted our Sales Manager Steven Allan in their article entitled The real era of virtualisation which discusses the current state of virtualisation in the industry.
Offshoring technical support to improve service standards
The register reports today that Fasthosts are offshoring their UK customer service team to Romania and the Phillipines, citing improved service standards as a result. It’s quite amazing that a company can claim service standard improvement as a virtue of …
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Broadband speeds research published by Ofcom
Ofcom this week published its initial research into broadband speeds. The report contains non-ISP specific results following tests with SamKnows over a period of a month. Some of the main findings from the report include: 3.6Mbit/s was the average speed …
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Severed undersea fibre causing connectivity issues to Middle East and Asia
Internet and phone communications between Europe, the Middle East, and Asia have been seriously disrupted after submarine cables were severed. Customers may notice higher latency and/or connectivity issues to the Middle East and Asia. More details at BBC News Website