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Redbus Boss Begs Customers To Stay
News Redbus customers who suffered hours of downtime last Tuesday should stick with the data centre company, whose upgrade is now "almost complete", Mike Tobin, the company's chief executive, told ZDNet UK on Monday.
[March 7, 2005, 15:20]
Furious Redbus Users Demand Honesty
News Irate Redbus customers have responded with scorn to chief executive Mike Tobin's pleas for them to stick with the company, following problems at one of its London data centres which knocked many companies offline for hours last week.
[March 8, 2005, 13:35]
Furious Redbus Users Demand Honesty
Talkback Redbus have a very poor track record, in particular with their use of low-skill staff and in some cases untrained (the security guards are sometimes used to restart equipment etc). On the point of the guards, we have had one of our Redbus racks...
[March 13, 2005, 14:09]
Furious Redbus Users Demand Honesty
Talkback I don't know if this has crossed anyone else's mind, but if one power distribution system in one core hosting facility can cause this much disruption to this many people, can you imagine what a coordinated attack (9/11-alike) would do to the UK's...
[March 9, 2005, 23:06]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Much sound and fury among Redbus customers, who are still waiting to hear what sort of compensation they can expect from last week's extended - and expensive - power supply outage. You don't promise, as Redbus did before the event, to have a local...
[March 11, 2005, 17:10]
Stanford To Appeal Email Intercept Conviction
News Clifford Stanford, founder of Demon and Redbus, is planning to launch an appeal after receiving a suspended prison sentence for illegally intercepting emails. Stanford was sentenced on Thursday to six months imprisonment, suspended for two years...
[September 16, 2005, 13:45]
Demon Founder Loses RIPA Appeal Bid
News Clifford Stanford, the founder of Demon and Redbus, has been denied the right to appeal against his conviction for illegally intercepting emails, according to Out-Law.com. Stanford was sentenced to six month's imprisonment, suspended for two years...
[February 3, 2006, 14:50]
Demon Founder Pleads Guilty To Email Charges
News Clifford Stanford, the founder of Demon Internet and Redbus, pleaded guilty on Thursday morning to unlawful email interception. Codefendant George Liddell, a former employee of Redbus, also pleaded guilty to the same charge.
[September 15, 2005, 12:50]
Demon Founder In Court Over Email Interception Charges
News Clifford Stanford, the founder of Demon and Redbus, went on trial on Tuesday over charges of unlawful email interception. Stanford was charged with intercepting email correspondence from John Porter, former chairman of Redbus Interhouse, and son of...
[September 13, 2005, 16:05]
UK Data Hosting Rivals Merge
News Redbus Interhouse and TeleCity, two of the largest UK hosting companies, have agreed to merge. Redbus, a colocation and managed service provider, has had a cash offer accepted for Telecity. There will be some job losses, but not many," said Mike...
[November 4, 2005, 14:20]
User Group Or Fan Club?
Leader You wait ages for a Redbus story, and then a whole bunch come along at once. We're referring, of course, to the stories following up on the power surge that fried the servers of Redbus customers last week.
[March 8, 2005, 12:30]
Power Failure Knocks Web Sites Offline
News London hosting firm Redbus Interhouse has blamed a power outage for a meltdown which took many of its customers off the web on Tuesday morning. Redbus has apologised and blamed the fault on a failure that occurred during a routine generator test.
[March 2, 2005, 16:25]
Demon Internet Founder Trial Postponed
News The crown court trial of Redbus and Demon Internet founder Cliff Stanford, who faces charges of blackmail and email intercepting, has been postponed until the end of the month. Last February, Stanford denied illegally intercepting emails of John...
[January 10, 2005, 11:45]
Power Failure Knocks Web Sites Offline
Talkback The power failure at RedBus HEX also damaged lots of equipment including power supplies for many servers, routers, switches and power distribution systems. Redbus engineers were so tied up with problems they took around 5 hours to respond.
[March 2, 2005, 17:37]
Cliff Stanford: The Maverick Internet Pioneer
News Stanford kept his interest in Internet access by setting up an investment vehicle, the Redbus Group, which in turn invested in hosting company Redbus Interhouse. Examples of start-ups that the company propagated were a landmine clearing...
[September 16, 2005, 13:20]
Internet Pioneer Charged Under RIP Act
News Stanford, who was arrested by officers of the National High-Tech Crime Unit and charged on Thursday, is accused of illegally intercepting the emails of John Porter, chairman of Internet company Redbus.
[February 13, 2004, 16:35]
Power Failure Knocks Web Sites Offline
Talkback I agree that power took much longer to restore than the 5 minutes Redbus are implying. We and many other customers didn't get back online until after 4pm
[March 2, 2005, 19:05]
Power Failure Knocks Web Sites Offline
Talkback Although ZDNet didn't report on them, this is not the first Redbus outage. There have been 3 in the space of 6 months. As a customer there I am in no way "satisfied" with the service level.
[March 2, 2005, 16:52]
Online Multimedia Training
White Papers Redbus CPD (Continuing Professional Development) has developed an innovative multimedia solution, supported by the Microsoft platform, which delivers high quality interactive training programs over the Internet via BT’s broadband network.
[December 6, 2003, 23:00]
London's Data Centres Bursting At The Seams
News Hosting firm Redbus Interhouse estimates that data centres are growing at around 30 percent per year, and the survey of companies taking part in the DataCentres Europe event in London next month found that most are already close to capacity.
[March 2, 2005, 14:15]
