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This page is updated frequently to keep our colocation customers in touch with new service offerings
and Below Zero's latest news.
05.01.08 Following a successful infrastructure upgrade in the Scolocate Data Centre we have introduced additional capacity to the network as a whole and additionally improved routing performance.
09.12.08 We would like to wish all of our customers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New
Year. Rest assured we will be working hard during the festivities to keep your systems online.
06.11.08 To assist customers with multiple Servers a new section
has been added to the Self Service interface. It is now easier to change your monitoring
settings, use your bandwidth calculator and view your bandwidth graphs in all of the
popular browsers.
22.09.08 Updates to our Self Service interface now allows Support
Requests to be validated from your online account eliminating any chance of e-mail filters
catching Support Requests incorrectly. A re-formatting of the Support Documentation hopefully
makes easier reading too.
08.08.08 In a concerted effort with other ISPs Below Zero have
invested time and resources in helping to minimise unsolicited e-mails and Spam on the
Internet. All outbound e-mails originating from our Mail Servers are now cryptographically
signed and in addition conform with the Sender Policy Framework. As a result we effectively
take responsibility for those e-mails and recipients can be assured that the message was sent
by us. The digital signing is also done entirely behind the scenes and end users have no need
to alter their existing e-mail set up in order to benefit.
18.07.08 A further investment in our Scolocate
network has increased our network speeds and capacity significantly.
23.06.08 A sophisticated upgrade to our text
message monitoring system has been completed helping to significantly lower the chance of
any false positives.
15.04.08 To assist us in
replacing failed nodes within our own Server cluster we have chosen a
new method which duplicates an entire drive's image very effectively. If
you require advice on how to achieve the same levels of efficiency
within your own Co-located Server cluster then please feel free to contact
us.
22.02.08 The first annual Ruby on Rails
conference will be held here in Scotland from the 4th to the 5th April 2008 in Edinburgh.
They've managed to attract a number of great speakers. You can see the entire list at www.scotlandonrails.com/speakers and the talks at www.scotlandonrails.com/talks
along with a number of sponsors.
05.02.08 Having achieved 100% uptime over the
festive period we have more recently turned our focus to improving the security of physical
access to our Data Centres by introducing new methods of authenticating access
requests.
20.12.07 Merry Christmas ! We would like to wish
all of our customers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Rest assured we will be working
hard to keep your critical systems functioning over the festive period.
21.11.07 We are very pleased with a
newly-introduced routing configuration which has provided us with a more granular
control of our networks.
28.09.07 Further improvements to our networking
infrastructure mean customers can enjoy even more levels of redundancy and resilience.
13.07.07 Images of the Data Centre that we built a
six bandwidth provider network within during November last year can be viewed in this new colocation images slideshow.
17.05.07 Our monitoring system now has the option to send a voice
call if your Server fails to respond. For those times where you may not hear a text message
alert, be in a position to check e-mail or are out of mobile phone reception you may now
optionally receive a phone call to a landline should issues arise.
16.03.07 A new white paper detailing network reach looks at the
importance of using a network with a very carefully selected reach. An older paper can be
found here: colocation white
paper.
06.02.07 To add to the choice of available routes from the LIPEX and LoNAP peering points we have added another transit provider Entanet to our ScoLocate network. Entanet operate
a UK-centric tier-2 network. This brings the total to a staggering seven bandwidth
providers meaning that Below Zero truly operate a 21st Century Network.
18.01.07 Raising the total to six bandwidth providers, four
powering our ScoLocate network and two our City Centre network, the recent addition of Onyx Internet
supplying transit brings even higher levels of reliability to our exceptional multihomed
network.
07.12.06 Below Zero now also receives transit from Deutsche
Telekom and TeliaSonera. The addition of these providers offers far greater network reach, faster data delivery and significantly superior levels
of network reliability.
02.12.06 Below Zero are delighted to announce the completion of the
implementation phase within our secondary physical site, ScoLocate. Our outstanding networking infrastructure is now live and
utilising one of the world's finest tier-1 network operators, Level 3.
Network speeds are an ideal 8ms on average from the London Internet Exchange, LINX.
08.11.06 Below Zero unveil plans for a secondary physical site on
the outskirts of Edinburgh, some six miles from our existing facilities and closer to Glasgow.
For our larger customers the secondary site offers the complete solution for additional
redundancy; the ability to failover critical services to alternative bandwidth providers
within an unrelated physical environment. For our other customers hosting a single server
within another Data Centre for key services, such as mail and DNS, is an extremely
cost-effective way of recovering from unexpected events.
19.10.06 In addition to last month's physical
improvements further improvements to our networking infrastructure have
now also been completed.
04.09.06 We have had a busy summer improving the physical location of customer equipment including the addition of
structurally cabled cabinets to speed maintenance and diagnostics.
18.05.06 Below Zero is delighted to announce a new service freely
available to those customers running Gentoo
Linux on their Servers. In partnership with The Penguin Factory we will be donating bandwidth resources to a local
Gentoo mirror, meaning that a full Portage tree and a partial distfiles repository will be
available to customers on our lightning fast network.
09.05.06 Over the last few months we have continued to add to our
portfolio of household names and corporate customers.
17.03.06 In a continuing effort to offer the best possible service
we have regraded away from Level 3 to trial TINet, Tiscali's corporate network. TINet's core
backbone spans 15 European countries and the US. All of the backbone POPs support MPLS and
Class of Service as well as a native IPv6 stack. It is capable of carrying voice and data at
multiple 10 Gbps-rates within Europe and the US, as well as over transatlantic routes. More
information and network maps can be found via our Bandwidth page.
03.02.06 We now accept credit and debit cards for secure, online payment via our Self
Service interface.
01.02.06 Below Zero announce an office move. Please update your
records to reflect our new address, details of which can be found on the Contact page.
11.01.06 Below Zero is accredited as a partner on Sun's iForce
initiative. The iForce Initiative is about cooperative partnering among the best and brightest
in the industry. Contact us today to discuss your Sun Colocation requirements.

10.01.06 We are delighted to announce that we achieved 100% uptime
over the festive period which is a business critical time for our high profile e-commerce
customers.
12.12.05 We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our
customers a very Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Rest assured that we will be
working hard to keep your mission critical systems online over the festivities.
29.11.05 Due to increasing customer demand we have made further
capacity increases and performance improvements to our networks.
24.10.05 To provide additional redundancy Below Zero have created a new
Server cluster which will help keep both customer-facing and staff systems downtime to an absolute
minimum.
28.08.05 Below Zero have proudly sponsored a worthy project advocating Open Source
Software with a generous bandwidth donation. A podcast released by the project can be heard by
clicking the following link Open Sauce.
18.07.05 We are delighted to announce the completion of our major
infrastructure upgrade. Both of our providers now connect to Europe's main meeting point for
Internet traffic LINX within one hundredth of a second and
the overall reliability of our networks has also been increased to an even higher
level.
23.05.05 In a continuing effort to offer the highest level of
networking service available we are pleased to announce another major infrastructure
upgrade. Service continuity should be unaffected during the transition from traditional
telecommunications cabling to Ethernet. The PSINet upgrade will increase our bandwidth
capacity and also ensure future upgrade paths are almost entirely seamless.
05.05.05 Below Zero is delighted to become an approved ISP with
UKERNA and JANET. We are now allowed to administrate government and academic Domain Names
(gov.uk and ac.uk). More details can be found on the JANET website.
26.04.05 Below Zero proudly sponsor a worthy open source project
called RavenCore which is a sophisticated Control Panel
for Shared Server Hosting compromised entirely of open source software.
25.04.05 In a continuing effort to enhance our connectivity we are moving away from Globix to trial Level 3's network.
Details of their impressive tier-1 network can be found on our bandwidth page along with
a link to their Corporate site.
08.03.05 Working hard since the beginning of the year Below Zero
has been busy upgrading both networking systems and customer-facing systems to keep the
quality of service at an optimum.
14.01.05 Below Zero become a stakeholder in the Now-Business network. Wi
th more than 7000 active community members Now-Business is the UK's most active and most effective independent business networking community.
11.01.05 We are pleased to report that we achieved 100% uptime over the critical festive period. Customers running high-revenue e-
commerce sites benefit once again from our outstanding infrastructure.
14.12.04 From everyone at Below Zero, we would like to wish all of
our customers a very Happy Christmas and a prosperous 2005.
29.11.04 To assist our customers in the ever growing battle against unsolicited e-mail we
have now introduced realtime antispam systems to our Mail Servers. The sophisticated system
also minimises the
chances of our Servers relaying Win32 worms and trojans and checks global databases in realtime to
prevent known compromised Mail Servers from delivering e-mail to our systems.
05.10.04 Looking for a Dedicated Server or Managed Server ? Below Zero now have
partnerships with several tried and tested Systems Administration companies that can deliver a robust
solution on all of the popular flavours of Operating System. Coupled with our lightning-fast, multihomed,
infrastructure you will find that in many cases choosing two specialists to deliver your solution will be
more affordable than using just a single ISP. Get in touch today for more details by clicking on the
Contact Page.
29.09.04 Life begins at 40Gb/s. A first for the UK in bandwidth terms as LINX announces a new world
record: LINX News
30.08.04 Customers hosting equipment with Below Zero can now enjoy lightning-fast
connectivity via our new high capacity, Cisco powered, state-of-the-art, BGP4 network. With three lines for
connectivity over two of the world's finest tier-1 providers we aim to raise the standards set by other ISPs.
Please visit our bandwidth page for more details.
03.06.04 We have been very busy designing our exciting new networking
infrastructure over the last two months and hope to make an announcement about our new multihomed,
BGP4 network shortly. We aim to offer our customers connectivity from no less than three lines for
failover and in addition reduce our prices. Please check for more details over the next few
weeks.
23.03.04 The hardware shown below which is suitable for our Zero
Downtime package is now available to lease. The leasing also incorporates an upgrade path,
which enables you to add further hardware, software and other services during the term of the
agreement without necessarily increasing the payments. It truly removes the headaches of the
initial cash outlay when buying new Servers. The basic Server (more details here) can be bought for as little
as 15 a month over three years ! Contact Below Zero for more information.

20.02.04 Below Zero is delighted to launch one of the best value
Server
Hosting packages in Scotland. The Zero Downtime
package
is available for just £55 per month and offers the highest quality of Server Hosting
at fantastic value. It is ideal for Small Businesses or anyone looking to run their own Server.
There is now no need to run your Servers from London when physical access to your Servers
inside our Data Facility is available 24 hours a day. Feel free to contact us for more information
on the hardened Linux build we plan to offer with this package or if you prefer where to
purchase Microsoft licences.

19.02.04 You can now find us at this comprehensive
Colocation and Hosting website: DataCentersUK.com
10.02.04 Below Zero is proud to have been accredited as Strategic
Developer on Sun Microsystem's iForce[sm] Partner Program. The iForce Initiative is
about cooperative partnering among the best and brightest in the industry. Contact us today to
discuss your Sun Colocation requirements.

21.01.04 Below Zero is delighted to have recently assisted both
charities and
voluntary organisations in Scotland. We are proud to support Scotland's Voluntary Sector at Workwithus.org.
05.01.04 We are pleased to report that once again our Hosting
customers enjoyed 100% uptime over the critical festive period. This enabled those
companies providing e-commerce services to reap the rewards of the growing numbers of consumers
shopping online over the festivities.
01.12.03 Below Zero wish a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all
of our customers and suppliers. As our e-commerce customers rely so heavily on our services over
the festivities we assure them that we will continue with our hard work to help them achieve Zero
Downtime.
06.10.03 A new special offer has been announced ! Running until
the 30th of November 2003, Below Zero will generously give every new One Below Zero customer a free month of
hosting, that's a total of thirteen months of Server Hosting for the price of twelve.
Below Zero can also now source medium specification Servers for as little as
<£>495 plus VAT. Visit the Contact Page to get in touch today and benefit from our vast
experience.
02.10.03 Below Zero have been very pleased with the response from the recent marketing campaign which advertised the discounted One Below Zero package over the summer months. Below Zero have been praised once again for the excellent quality of the impartial a
dvice and assistance offered to all of their
Colocation customers whether it was regarding their hardware, systems administration or
Colocated Server security.
26.09.03 Our customers have been extremely impressed with the outstanding service
from Linux consultants 'The Penguin Factory'. Below
Zero would be happy to recommend them to any business looking for high
quality Linux and Open Source consultancy.
15.08.03 Below Zero, Scotland's only Colocation specialist, continue to grow steadily. Contact us today to
find out why so many companies choose Below Zero for their Server Colocation and Hosting requirements.
18.07.03 Below Zero announce a special offer running until the end of
September on their One Below Zero package. The outstanding value, with
a high availability service that is second to none, is ideal for Colocation customers wishing to
sign up with just one Server. Save over <£>300 and benefit from our vast experience and incredible
uptime record. We are confident that you won't find better value for Colocation in Scotland.
19.05.03 Below Zero have recently been involved with some exciting new
security technologies and have also upgraded our Colocation customer systems to add further
redundancy.
04.03.03 Below Zero have been busy winning new customers since the
beginning of the year, including some households names. We have also achieved almost Zero Downtime
since moving the majority of our Server Hosting customers into our Data Facility in the centre of
Edinburgh on May the
21st 02.
10.01.03 Below Zero are delighted to report that through lots of hard
work once again we achieved 100% uptime over the critical festive period, allowing our
Co-location customers
running E-commerce systems on their Hosted Servers, to take full advantage of the sales potential
over this busy time.
02.12.02 Below Zero's Self Service interface has a redesign. Taking
comments from existing and potential Server Hosting customers onboard we have started the redesign
of our online
Self Service system. Self Service allows customers to access realtime bandwidth graphs, protocol
monitoring tools to keep an eye on individual services running on each Server hosted with us, our
paperless invoicing system, a user-friendly bandwidth calculator and a
secure login to reboot devices automatically, all 24x7x365. We would also like to take this
opportunity to wish all of our Server Hosting and Colocation customers a Merry Christmas and a
prosperous New
Year.
30.10.02 Below Zero, Scotland's only Co-location specialist,
specialising in Server Hosting,
continues to grow steadily and are investigating further automated systems to aid our
Colocation customers
achieve Zero Downtime with their Server Hosting. Aside from our infrastructure improvements, a
marketing drive for advertising our Colocation services has secured the Domain Name Below-Zero.biz to
appear in our advertising.
10.09.02 Remote Reboot Devices go live. As well as Power Cycling
and Power Monitoring devices, we are now able to source Operating System specific devices for
Colocation Servers. To
help our customers achieve Zero Downtime with their Colocation, we are also
examining other automated systems. Please enquire for further details.
29.07.02 We will shortly be introducing
devices into our Data Facility in the centre of Edinburgh
that allow customers to securely login remotely and reboot their hosted Servers without requiring
an engineer's assistance. This means the fastest possible response times and unlimited reboots will be
available for customers that frequently require them, offering high availability even when
software issues arise.
31.05.02 Below Zero slash prices. Firstly, new customers using our One
Below Zero package will receive a massive 10GB bandwidth allowance each
month. Secondly all bandwidth used over and above package limits has been reduced by a minimum of 20%. And finally, Below Zero have reduced Physical
Access to Colocation equipment and Duty Engineer charges both in and out of hours by a minimum of 50% !
Although we have increased our bandwidth capacity and introduced failover to our now fully redundant
networks we are delighted we can pass further savings onto our customers. The new pricing
structure makes Below Zero, specialists in Server Hosting, unbeatable for
Co-location in Scotland and of course our formidable uptime record still puts our competitors to
shame.
22.05.02 Having traded for just one year, as Scotland's
only Collocation specialist, specialising in Server Hosting Colocation, we are delighted to
announce that we
have turned our first operational profit. As a thank you to our Colocation customers we have
initiated significant infrastructure upgrades and are now able to offer a massive 155Mbs of bandwidth. With an outstanding uptime record for their
Colocation Below Zero have initiated additional network upgrades, helping our
customers to achieve zero downtime, in the form of a sizeable failover
line, offering fully redundant connectivity to the Internet.
16.04.02 Behind the scenes, Below Zero, Server Hosting and
Colocation specialists, have
been planning an upgrade to their
existing systems, introducing further redundancy for customers using our outgoing e-mail service. In
addition we have secured the widely sought after Domain Name ZeroDowntime.co.uk to appear in our marketing.
30.01.02 Hammer Plc have some great news for 2002. They now offer ideal Co-location
hardware - a 1U rack mountable Co-location Server, with a 1GHz PIII processor, 512Mb RAM and a
years
onsite warranty for the oustanding
price of around <£>900. If you are upgrading your hardware for your Co-location or are simply
looking to add further redundancy to
your hosted Servers, this is a great opportunity to procure the highest quality of hardware
ideal for
colo at extremely reasonable prices.
22.01.02 Below Zero are delighted to report that, unlike our
competitors, we achieved zero downtime with our Server Hosting over the critical festive period.
Many of our
Colocation customers running E-commerce shops have their busiest times over the
festive
period and we
are proud that the reliability of our service has helped them continue to serve their
customers.
19.11.01 Taking advantage of the recent launch of new TLDs,
we have secured the Domain Name BelowZero.biz - Below
Zero, the only existing Scottish Colocation specialist, are happy to impartially advise our clients
on many aspects of the Internet, including Domain Names, as well as all aspects regarding their
Server Hosting.
11.10.01 Helping our Server Hosting customers achieve Zero Downtime -
Below Zero's Self Service is now fully integrated with an SMS gateway. Our Co-location monitoring
system based in Edinburgh allows any protocol to be checked at five minute intervals. Should, for
example, your Web Server fail but your Mail Server remain online then an immediate alert is sent
automatically by text message to your phone (SMS) and by e-mail. Self Service is available as
standard to all our Server Hosting and Colocation customers.
25.09.01 A CBS investment charting and research site discusses our
co-location partnership, setting to raise the standards of Server Hosting and Co-location in
Scotland, in Mar
ketWatch.com
10.09.01
Scotland IS, the main Internet trade body in Scotland, announces news of our
Server Hosting partnership.
07.09.01 International Collocation trade press discusses the partnership in
The
Colocation Network
06.09.01 PSINet headlines on their UK
site with details of the partnership.
06.09.01 News of the significant Colocation partnership
with PSINet appears in the OTC market source,
PinkSheets.com
17.08.01 Below Zero are delighted to
announce that they are to partner with PSINet the world's
largest independent ISP. The partnership will help manoeuvre both parties towards the servicing of
Server Hosting for blue chip companies in Scotland. Further details to follow shortly.
08.08.01 Below Zero, based in Scotland, launch their new
Colocation website. More
features are planned and will be added in the future, such as mail lists to inform our Server
Hosting and Colocation customers of planned maintenance windows and network upgrades as we expand
our services.
02.08.01 Hardware News: Below Zero have agreed to
use Hammer Plc for all their Colocation Intel
hardware, following analysis on several competitors, Hammer have proven to offer the highest
quality of customer service and hardware at fantastic value with zero downtime. Below Zero can now
offer the outstanding price of around <£>600 for a 1U Intel dedicated Hosting Server to their Co-location
customers, including a one year on-site warranty.
25.07.01 Based in Edinburgh and targeting some of the key
decision-makers in Scotland, with regards to their Server Hosting and Colocation, the seminar is to
be held in
the middle of November and will jointly include participation from the Sun hardware specialists Access Computing, the blue-chip security consultancy
DNS and Europe's leading specialists in Facilities Management, TeleCity. All parties will be alongside Below Zero,
specialising in Server Hosting.
27.06.01 Below Zero have begun organising a free seminar with guest speakers, combined with a
visit to our data facility to discuss Colocation. The seminar will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland.
More details will be available in the near future.
15.06.01 Below Zero, Scotland's only Colocation specialist are proud
to announce sponsorship of the Scottish Enterprise E-business week. Colocation seminars
will be held in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh. Four prize winners won
discounted services for colo, a visit to our data facility or data centre in Edinburgh and gain
free Internet consultancy for anything Internet-related not just that associated with colo.
01.06.01 Below Zero join the main Internet trade body in Scotland and
offer all of its members a significant discount towards their dedicated Collocation. ScotlandIS is the conglomeration of ISOC, SSF
and IMAS.
28.05.01 An article in
Scottish Computer Headline offered further details on the launch of the leading
Corporate Dedicated Server Hosting Company in Scotland.
16.05.01 Below Zero, based in Edinburgh, are Scotland's only
Collocation specialist and the launch is discussed in an article by the Glasgow Herald
15.05.01 Despite the bleak climate the technology sector has recently experienced, Below Zero
has received funding to further the growth of Scotland's only Colocation specialist, specialising
in Server Hosting. Based in Edinburgh, Below Zero aim to be Scotland's leading
dedicated Colocation provider offering all of our customers Hosting with zero downtime. News of our launch in
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