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Global Switch London 2

In an effort to continue offering the best possible services, Express Hosting UK are proud to announce our latest point of presence at Global Switch London 2. The Tier 4 facility located in the London Docklands is Europe’s largest purpose built datacentre with 10 floors and a gross size of 705,498 square feet. The datacentre boasts N+N redundancy on mission critical components, delivering an optimal operating environment to clients 24×7.

The datacentre is powered via 2 x 132kV mains incomers and diverse A&B supplies are distributed via 11kV ring main units. All power and cooling systems are supported by 33 no-break RotaryDiesel UPS sets and in the unlikely event of a full power outage the DC features diesel generators (with 4 x 119,00 litre tanks) which will support 50 hours at full capacity with 8 hour, 24×7 fuel delivery callout contract in place.

Full details and specifications of the datacentre can be found here.

Over the next couple of months we will be moving our VPS and Exchange services to this new facility, full details on this will be published nearer the time. Customers who wish to have their dedicated servers located in this new facility should contact sales for more information.

Rackspace & Colocation

Express Hosting UK can provide full 47U racks at this facility starting from £1649 per month.  Single server colocation, IP transit, direct datacentre interconnects and manage backup solutions are available at this facility. Please contact sales for more information.