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Quarter Cabinet Manchester Colocation Offer

October 27, 2010 – 2:17 pm

Switchlink are currently offering amazing Colocation deals for our Facility in Manchester.

Quarter Rack (11u) Colocation Package

Our quarter rack colocation is suitable for customers who need to colocate a number of servers with the physical security of a dedicated lockable section of a cabinet.

The table below outlines the basics of the package, but contacting Sales will allow them to prepare a customized package for you.

Colocation Package Feature Table
11u Quarter
Physical Space Private 11u Quarter
Power Allocation 2A (0.5kW)
Uplink Port Speed
 100Mbps
Included Data Transfer (per month) 7,000GB
Included ‘Remote Hands’ (per month) * 60 minutes
24×7 Physical Access Yes
Unescorted Access Yes
Dedicated Circuit Breaker Yes
Power Presentation 16 A ‘Commando’ or 8x IEC C13
Setup (inc rack)** £499
Monthly ** £250
Additional Power £60 per amp
More Information and Ordering
 Contact Us

A number of additional services are available – contact us for details:

  • Storage Facilities
  • Delivery Acceptance
  • Meeting Room Hire
  • Copper and Fibre Cross-Connects
  • Ethernet backhaul to any UK building
  • Satellite Feeds

* – minimum of 15 minutes per incident, additional time at £20 per 15 minutes
** – Prices exclude VAT at the prevailing rate

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Switchlink officially launch it’s Hosted Sage solutions

October 26, 2010 – 4:38 pm

Switchlink, for several years has been one of the UK’s fastest growing Virtual Server providers and now, coupled with its manages services team, Switchlink have publically launched their Hosted Sage services.

Unlike their Switchlink Unmanaged solutions, HostedSage.co.uk will specialize in provisioning and manages Private Cloud solutions for Small, Medium and Large enterprises across Europe.

Built on our own private wholly owned infrastructure, HostedSage.co.uk will provide the finest level of support and services on a business to business relationship.

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Ubuntu 10.04 Now Available on OpenVZ

October 6, 2010 – 8:58 am

We have just added Ubuntu 10.04 onto our OpenVZ Virtualization platform and is now available to order.

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Notice for VPS Cloud 9 Beta Users

September 20, 2010 – 5:07 pm

All beta users were notified on the 13th of September that their service require signup prior to the 17th to ensure theor service remains in tact.

Further notification was sent out on the 17th of September notifying any users that have not extended their service that their service will be terminated.

This morning, any servers that were not extended beyond the beta period have been terminated and removed from the network.

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Now offering Trixbox CE for VoIP Virtual Servers

September 17, 2010 – 5:12 am

Switchlink now offers TrixBox CE as an operating system choice on our Xen virtual servers.

trixbox Community Edition began in 2004 as the massively popular Open Source IP-PBX project named Asterisk@Home. Since then, it has grown into the world’s most popular distribution of Asterisk with over 65,000 downloads per month. trixbox is known for its flexibility to satisfy the needs of custom deployments and will continue to be FREE

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Maintenance Window 16th September 2010

September 15, 2010 – 10:28 am

Following up on the email sent to our customers, there is a maintenance window @ 00:00 to 02:00 on the 16th of September 2010.

This will effect all Switchlink customer and is Phase one of the upgrades.

If you’re VPS is offline after 02:00, please contact support.

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Support Ticket Issues

September 8, 2010 – 10:32 pm

We have noticed that their has been some issues with our ticket system over the last 4 hours.

Some emails were not getting through to our ticket system, for this we apologise. This was only effected replies to existing tickets, and not new cases.

If you have submitted a response after 3:30PM and received no reply, please resubmit the email.

We apologise for any inconvenience or delays this may have caused to our customers.

Regards,

Switchlink Support

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Migration from Parallels Virtuozzo to SolusVM

August 25, 2010 – 10:26 am

Due to a long number of service issues with Parallels, we have decided to move away from the Parallels products for out Virtual Server Products and move to SolusVM.

This allows us to offer both OpenVZ (Virtuozzo) and Xen HVM products side by side.

Please note, that during this period, access to the Power Panel may be restricted, but you will also benefit from a greater level of access to the new control panels.

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Packet Loss to a small segment of the UK Network

August 3, 2010 – 2:29 pm

We are experiencing Packet Loss due to a large and sustained DoS attack to a customer within the uk cloud.

We are currently filtering the traffic and locating the customer in question to ensure normal service is resumed.

We would like to apologise for any issues this is causing some UK customers.

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Adding an additional IP on XEN HVM

July 15, 2010 – 2:57 pm

This article will work on standard server or virtual server installations aswell.

Our XEN HVM Virtual Servers are setup for eth0 to obtain it’s primary IP address via DHCP. This is true of all our Linux configurations.

However, when you have multiple IP addresses on your virtual server, you will need to manually assign the IP address to an interface.

Here are the instructions for Ubuntu

[text]sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces[/text]

Then enter your information in the following format

[text]auto eth0:1
iface eth0:1 inet static
address 192.168.1.60
netmask 255.255.255.0
network x.x.x.x
broadcast x.x.x.x
gateway x.x.x.x[/text]

Networking will then require restarting

[text]sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart[/text]

For Centos, Fedora and other Redhat based systems

Each network interface has it’s own config file, so we need to copy an existing one for the new interface

[text]
cp /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0  /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1
[/text]

Now we need to edit the file as required

[text]vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0[/text]

And the format should be as below, ensuring the device matches your sub interface number and there is no hardware address listed.

[text]
DEVICE=eth0:0
BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
IPADDR=192.168.1.60
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
ONBOOT=yes
[/text]

Networking will then require a restart.

[text]/etc/init.d/networking restart[/text]

That should be it! ifconfig should new display your new interface and IP’s

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