Does anyone have ballpark costs on what colo space costs in England. We are getting a quote for 7500 gbp per month For 19 square meters of space. In us we pay 3500 a month for 10x10 cage at a quest facility
Also I'd anyone can recommend some british colo companies would appreciate it
US prices. That seemed to be in-line with our competitors at the time.
John
Things tend to cost, in quantity, as many British pounds as they do US dollars. The difference from our perspective is the exchange ratio.
Prices that are near 2x the cost in the states is probably comparable.
jgrajewski@mandylionlabs.com schrieb:
Does anyone have ballpark costs on what colo space costs in England.
We are getting a quote for 7500 gbp per month For 19 square meters
of space. In us we pay 3500 a month for 10x10 cage at a quest
facility Also I'd anyone can recommend some british colo companies
would appreciate it
If you consider UK != London, then you still get reasonable prices. I
recently got two cabinets in Manchester at IFL
http://www.internetf.co.uk/ and I was pleased with the service.
HTH,
Fredy
Does anyone have ballpark costs on what colo space costs in
England. We are getting a quote for 7500 gbp per month For
19 square meters of space. In us we pay 3500 a month for
10x10 cage at a quest facility
Also I'd anyone can recommend some british colo companies
would appreciate it
I would suggest that you specify that the colo must be located outside
the Greater London area unless you absolutely, positively must shave off
the extra 3 or 3 milliseconds of rtt. That way you avoid our power
shortage problems (which jack up prices) and you also get a colo where
all other costs are lower (real-estate, labor, utilities). This will be
reflected in the prices. Note that many companies claim to be in London
even though their physical location is not, because it is seen as
prestigious.
Get out a map of England that has a scale and compare some distances to
your local area. It is a small country and even way up north in
Manchester, they are only a few hours drive from London. Thankfully,
data traffic doesn't have to deal with the M6 north of Birmingham.
England really needs more data centres to locate well away from London,
closer to power generation sources.
--Michael Dillon
Perhaps s/England/The UK/ (our Scottish, Welsh and NI countrymen run
bits of the internet too 
).
The real issue is not power. This seems like a self-perpetuating myth
grown out of some whimsical excuse given for a lack of short-term
expansion in the London Docklands area (a major economic development
zone with significant infrastructure development underway.) As you
yourself say, the UK is small, but moreover has a dense, reliable power
grid. The biggest single base-load power station in the UK is only 100mi
from London, but even then it's not anywhere you'd want to put a
datacentre.
IMO the real issue is going to be more related to the sustained economic
growth in London which has driven up property prices there and in the
South East of England, coupled with the same commercial growth requiring
more colo space in itself. This is a situation which several colo
operators seem well on the way to addressing. 
Will
Space costs lots and lots in central London where connectivity is cheaper. There are datacentres away from London which are much less expensive, but connectivity tends to cost more.
Make sure your power requirements are well defined, 8A per cab is becoming a luxury in the Docklands !