Hosting & Cloud Musings. Infrequently.
We’ve been making a lot of noise about our new UK dedicated servers of late. And there’s a reason behind it. No one else is offering such a great value combination of server price, enterprise server hardware, a super-fast network backed by Jolt’s award winning support. To give you an idea of just how good …
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You may have seen us recently launch our brand new range of UK dedicated servers at Jolt dedicated servers range. We took pictures of the first batch of dedicated servers arriving onsite at our UK datacentre and us installing the servers in our colocation space. Pictures to tell the story are below… …
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A few weeks ago I blogged about our partnership with the Woodland Trust and how this is driving our green and environmental efforts moving forward. They sent us a calendar, some swag but also this certificate. We’re proud of our efforts to reduce our environmental impact and will display this certificate in our office and …
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Sometimes web hosts can have a bad day. We had one yesterday. We had a series of abnormal issues with one of our UK servers, UKRS5, over the duration of just over a week. The server would randomly reboot itself with no instruction from us from the command line,no instruction from us from the ILO …
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We don’t actively write about our vendors or business suppliers. It isn’t good business practice and it isn’t professional. Yet today, I felt compelled to post something about traditional ISPs and how customer service can be a world apart from that of us web hosts. The background We use Kingston Communications/KCOM/KC (this is one …
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