Welcome to the High Availability Hosting Blog

The Sheffield Data Centre website has been updated and is available at:

http://www.sheffielddatacentre.com

We’ve added the Half Rack specification, updated some details, and given the home page a make-over.

Also, we’ve updated the High Availability Hosting website, if you get a spare minute and want to know more about the company in general, as well as browse our other services including our VMware Hosted Dedicated Servers – pop over to:

http://www.hahosting.com

Back at the Data Centre – the raised floor under the rack locations has been layed, and is now being levelled (which is a very slow job!), the Cat6 cable is expected on site early next week ready for pulling, and the “Fire Door Keep Shut” signs have arrived!  *smile*.

Happy bank holiday everyone!

- Stuart.

- EDIT – latest internal pics!

Raised floor - towards office

Raised floor - towards loading bay

BT Openreach were on site yesterday to install the B-Side of our 100Mbit fibre connection to Virgin Media.

The fibre installation at our end went smoothly, and Openreach have left a loop connector in place so they can begin loopback testing from the A-Side (at Virgin Media / Telewest / NTL).

Elsewhere on site more raised access floor has been layed, and more wiring for emergency lights, CCTV and security has been installed.

Pics to follow soon!!

Another milestone passed!  The computer room is on it’s own lighting and power circuits!  All the temporary lights and sockets have now been removed, and the final lighting grid (complete with emergency bulkheads) are in place.  The decorating is (nearly) complete – just the touch-ups left to do where people have been unkind enough to drill holes for wires and the like  ;-) 

 

Lights being installed in the computer room

Finished lights

Less than a month after construction started, the final plastering has been completed and the decoration has started throughout.  Elsewhere Openreach have been in to terminate the 10-pair copper which will be used for phone lines, DSL, and the redundant access services.  The access-control controller boxes are being configured, and finally the 2nd fix electrics in the office are now going in.

This week promises to be a milestone in the project – not only will Friday be the one-month-marker, but the raised floor is due on site.  Before the end of the Bank Holiday we hope to have the raised floor in place where racks 1 and 2 will go, so Openreach and Telewest can come in and terminate the fibre from next week.

Final plastering complete

Decoration well under way

Office second fix electrics

Openreach on site