Redstation Colocation, £ (on request) on Colocation

Colocation has been discontinued (added January 6, 2021)

📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-Free
🌏 Server Locations :	United Kingdom
⚑ Targeting :	UK

Original plan URL was https://www.redstation.com/colocation/

📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

Redstation was a British infrastructure provider founded in 1998 by Lance Taylor. Based in Gosport, Hampshire, it belonged to the earlier generation of UK hosting companies that developed physical infrastructure, network capacity and server-management technology before public cloud platforms became the standard choice for enterprise deployments. Peter Appleton joined Taylor as a business partner in 2008.

The company focused on bare-metal cloud, dedicated servers, GPU servers, managed infrastructure, colocation, IP transit, private networking and hybrid hosting environments. Its services were designed primarily for companies running demanding applications rather than individuals looking for entry-level shared hosting.

Typical customers included businesses working in eCommerce, online gaming, financial technology, analytics, streaming, scientific research, IoT and big-data processing. These workloads benefited from physical server resources that were not shared with other tenants and could be configured around specific performance, storage and networking requirements.

Dedicated servers were available with customized processors, memory, SSD or hard-disk storage, hardware RAID, IP allocations, operating systems and management levels. Linux distributions, Windows Server, VMware ESXi and FreeNAS were among the available software environments, while custom operating-system installations could be arranged for more specialized deployments.

Redstation’s bare-metal platform combined physical servers with automated provisioning and software-defined networking. The company had been developing network automation since the mid-2000s, allowing customers to deploy, reinstall and modify servers without losing the consistent performance associated with dedicated hardware.

GPU servers expanded the service range for machine learning, rendering, simulations, scientific computing and other parallel-processing applications. Colocation customers could place their own equipment inside Redstation facilities while using the company’s power, cooling, network connectivity and on-site engineering services.

Redstation was acquired by iomart Group on 5 September 2013. The initial transaction value was £6.6 million, with additional consideration capable of increasing the total to approximately £8 million. At the time of the acquisition, Redstation had around 3,000 customers, employed 33 people and generated annual revenue of approximately £5.2 million.

Following the acquisition, Redstation operated alongside RapidSwitch, iomart’s other dedicated-server and bare-metal infrastructure brand. The separate Redstation identity gradually became less important as products, infrastructure and customer operations were consolidated.

The Redstation legal company became dormant and was formally dissolved on 30 April 2024. The remaining hosting operation was subsequently integrated into RapidSwitch, and the redstation.com domain now redirects to the RapidSwitch website.