Information for former Black Cat Networks customers.
Dedicated Servers
Mac Mini Clusters £ 220/month ex VAT.
Redundant disks, redundant power supplies, redundant memory, redundant CPUS. Combine the exceptional price/performance of the Mac Mini with better redundancy and scalability than a traditional 1U server.
Linux on the Apple TV £25 per month inc VAT.
Looking for a cheap linux dedicated server? The Apple TV is now available as our cheapest dedicated platform, it's half the size, half the power and just over half the cost of an equivalent Mac Mini.
Linux on the Mac Mini - £40 per month inc VAT.
Running the new Intel Core 2 Duo processor the Mac Mini gives the average 1U server decent competition for performance, but drawing less than 1/6th the power consumption it's far cheaper to run. If you'd like a fast and inexpensive Linux dedicated server or maybe Mac OS X for a fraction of the price of an XServe? Have a look at our Mac Mini dedicated servers, running your choice of Linux or Mac OS X.
Server co-location
With excellent connectivity, remote power control and serial console, we offer co-location done properly starting from £40 per month. We have three seperate sites, two located in the heart of Docklands for the ultimate in available bandwidth, and one in Cambridge for low bandwidth high current draw applications.If you're looking for a hassle-free start to co-location, have a look at our Up and Running service, or for more general information on co-location see our server co-location guide.
We also offer Mac Mini co-location, at a considerable discount to our standard co-lo prices.
Managed Services
Take advantage of our expertise. We wrote our own tools for monitoring RAID arrays that alert you to disk failures well before the vendor supplied tools usually notice. We put together the Mac Mini and Apple TV bootloader to give ourselves a comprehensive netboot recovery console. Hand over keeping the machine alive to us, while still retaining control to install and manage your applications.
Shell account hosting
Get a full-featured UNIX shell account with web, mail and DNS hosting for two domains, for as little as £4 per month. For more details, please see our pricelist, or fill out an application form to set up an account.
Use your shell account to read your mail from anywhere via IMAP, web mail or using a mail reader like mutt or pine; host a web site or a weblog using Movable Type or other software; or build applications using MySQL, Postgres or any of our other development tools.
Please note that we do not permit the use of IRC "bots" or "bouncers" from our shell accounts.
Linux Virtual Dedicated Servers
Our Virtual Dedicated Servers give you the flexibility of having root on your own server at a fraction of the cost of colocating your own hardware. Our VDS hosts not only have RAID but we have hot standby capability giving extremely rapid recovery should your host fail. Use your server to provide the Internet services of your choice such as web hosting, file sharing, off-site backups, and MX and DNS backup, Our service uses the proven User Mode Linux (UML) software.
Interested? For more information or to place an order, please email sales@mythic-beasts.com.
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