We finished monitoring the Low Latency Network (and the colocation networks as a whole) for bandwidth usage last weekend.
We’ve now analysed the reports and are forming packages which better suit the usage by customers, and the data centre as a business.
Customers will be contacted this week with an update. In the meantime the bandwidth analysis will remain so we can begin trending the network and available capacity.
We’ve started to gather statistics on bandwidth usage on the Low Latency Network used for gaming.
We currently provide an “all you can eat” service with no QOS or Traffic Management for £5 per month. Unfortunately due to massive demand and unfortunately some abuse we’ve had to re-think this strategy.
Later this year we’ll be introducing an allowance on the connection, and charging (at a low rate) for additional usage thereafter. We’re using MRTG to monitor port usage between now and August, and will use this data to give us an average baseline for and come up with a generous inclusive allowance for our gaming customers.
MRTG is non-intrusive and won’t impact your gaming performance. Stats will be available to each customer, along with throughput graphs and totals.
The “Low Latency Network” will remain just that – a network which is logically closer to the WAN switches and devoid of Traffic Management. Unfortunately the 100% free bandwidth could never last forever, and was actually discontinued for business customers earlier this year. We hope establishing a baseline of actual usage rather than plucking a number out of thin air will be a fair way of determining the allowance.
I’d like to also remind everyone that Web Hosting on the Low Latency Network is strictly prohibited. Gaming control panels are fine, but general hosting & downloads is not allowed as this eats into the bandwidth allocated just for gaming. Any user found web hosting on this network (we do check) will be instantly cut off and asked to discontinue.
If you’ve got any questions you can email support @ hahosting.com where we’ll be happy to help!
Attention all Gamers!
Built with the help of two local gaming clans, the new Low Latency Network (LLN) at the Sheffield Data Centre is a dedicated VLAN logically closer to the edge routers than the usual colocation networks.
Because of it’s placement, the Low Latency Network is unaffected by traffic shaping, QOS, bandwith monitoring, and other admin which can affect not the speed, but the latency of network traffic.
The LLN is plugged straight into the WAN switches, with connection speeds in multiples of 10Mbit (managed by us) and no bandwidth throughput restrictions.
Gaming Server Colocation prices start from just £32 per month for a 1U server, or £40 a month for a tower server. All servers include 1 IP address, 1 amp power and 15 minutes “remote hands assistance” per day.
See http://www.sheffielddatacentre.com/colocation/gamers.aspx for more details!
Hello! Firstly, hope you like the new look blog. We’ve moved the blog from the old home on the Sheffield Data Centre website to a dedicated site here at www.hahosting.info – the new blog will have news, info, updates and media from HA Hosting, TheVirtualCloud and the Sheffield Data Centre. All the content from the original blog is here too.
This new look and feel for the blog is a sneak preview of what our websites will look like when they’re updated next week. All our websites will have a shared theme and flow into each other with common menus and headers.
We’ve got a lot going on right now, and we’ll be posting detailed updates later, but here’s what we’re up to in November:
HA Hosting
TheVirtualCloud
Sheffield Data Centre
In the short term we’re working on the new cooling system in the Data Centre, preparing the network for the Unlimited Bandwidth Forever deals, and completing the rollout of the new web hosting infrastructure. Detailed updates for everything will be posted soon, so watch this space!
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