back to article Smashing, groovy, baby – yay, capitalism! Digital Ocean flogs Brit VMs

Cheap-as-a-chips virtual-machine hoster Digital Ocean has put roots down in the UK by opening up its first bit barn in Blighty. The US cloud company, based in New York, said on Tuesday that it had opened the doors on its "London" (LON1) data center. Pricing for its Linux VMs hosted in England is the same as the pricing at …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    20 megawatts to 50 megawatts cheaply

    Rumour has it the SSE data center is Sedgensworth is up for sale, if its true, then expect one of the big players to snap it up.. Its an incredible place, not a wanna-be like many of the other Colo's on the South Coast -

    http://www.ssetelecoms.com/products/data-centres-co-location/enterprise-data-centre-services/

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: 20 megawatts to 50 megawatts cheaply

      That's a tiddler, take a look at Digital Realty Woking (Formerly Sentrum IV).

  2. JimmyPage Silver badge
    Stop

    but still subject to US data laws

    so what's the point ?

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