Sheffield Data Centre

Name: Sheffield Data Centre
Address: Holbrook Commerce Park, Unit 9, Holbrook Cl, Sheffield, S20 3FJ, GB

Holbrook Commerce Park, Unit 9, Holbrook Cl, Sheffield, S20 3FJ, GB

Metro: Manchester, GB Country: United Kingdom Region: Europe

Carriers on-net

Power capacity

6 A

High Availability Hosting built its Sheffield room 45 metres above the city centre, on Holbrook Commerce Park at S20 3FJ, for flood mitigation, and it has run there since June 2009 - an unmarked unit behind a fenced and gated compound rather than a floor in a carrier hotel. Scale is modest: a 60 kVA diesel generator with roughly five-second failover and 24 hours of fuel on site, per-phase online double-conversion UPS, and water-chilled evaporative cooling, N+1, on contained hot and cold aisles that hold the room under 23 degrees. The utility feed comes straight from a Northern Powergrid substation. Prices are published rather than quoted: 990 pounds a month for a 45U rack, 645 for a 21U half rack, 335 for a quarter and from 52.50 for a single server, with extra power metered at 40 pence per kWh. Interconnection is the limit - a single network, the operator's own AS49485, with no exchange and no third-party carriers on net, and upstream runs to Telehouse North and Telehouse East in London. ISO 27001 is claimed for the site without a certificate number or a registrar, and the operator makes no Tier claim at all.

Facility Specifications

Site information

Power capacity: 6 A included with a 45U rack; extra power metered at 40p per kWh

Power & cooling

Redundancy: Per-phase online double-conversion UPS; 60 kVA diesel generator, ~5s failover, 24 hours of fuel
Cooling: Water-chilled evaporative, N+1, hot and cold aisle containment; up to 18,000 cubic metres per hour

Platforms & amenities

Platforms & services: Colocation (1U-4U, quarter, half and full rack, Mac Mini), virtual and cloud servers, cloud backup, managed firewall, VPN, SIP/VoIP wholesale
Amenities: Unmarked building, fenced and gated compound, motion-activated CCTV, Paxton proximity access, keyfob and PIN two-factor entry, AMCO alarm monitoring, 24/7 rack access

Network ecosystem — 1 carriers on-net

High Availability Hosting (AS49485)

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Frequently asked questions

What does a full rack cost?

990 pounds a month for 45U, including 6 amps across A/B feeds, 32 IPv4 addresses of which 29 are usable, and two 1 Gbit/s ports, with no setup fee on a twelve-month term. Lead time is about a week.

What backup power is on site?

A 60 kVA diesel generator with automatic failover in about five seconds and 24 hours of fuel, behind online double-conversion UPS protection on each electrical phase.

How is the cooling built?

Water-chilled evaporative cooling in N+1 with hot and cold aisle containment, delivering up to 18,000 cubic metres of chilled air an hour and holding the room under 23 degrees at 50 to 60 per cent relative humidity.

What is on net at Holbrook Commerce Park?

One - the operator's own AS49485. No internet exchange is present and no third-party carrier at the facility; upstream routes run to Telehouse North and Telehouse East in London, with fibre uplinks to London and Manchester.

Why is the building where it is?

Flood mitigation. The site sits roughly 45 metres above Sheffield city centre, in an unmarked unit with no external indication of its purpose, inside a fenced and gated compound.