At this point we had chosen to use the control panel ServerGears. We initially shipped 2x Dell Poweredge 1950 III servers up to them which we would use to kick start our Minecraft hosting offering, and continue our hosting of games we had previously offered in 2010.
Quickly we negotiated a new colocation agreement which would allow us to scale up server, by server with the exact power / bandwidth requirement we needed.Īfter this was done. In March / April of 2011 Nitrous Networks approached a data centre operator located in Sheffield, which operated a data centre by the name of simply “Sheffield Data Centre”. Scoring a deal with them for few dedicated servers that we were able to use to carry over our game server customers from previously collocated servers whilst a new business plan was drawn up, mapping out Nitrous’ future. At this point we had to pull out of the data centre we were housing servers within and re-evaluate our options.ĭuring this transitional period we sought out aid from VeloxServ. Which might not sound like a lot of bandwidth now, but back then this was easily what 1Gbps is now. At £12/Mbps per month and a 100Mbps bandwidth overage bill totalling £1200. However, Jordan’s prior realisation had come a little too late and in January of 2011 Nitrous Networks was faced with a major hurdle, bandwidth costs. Capital injected by Harry was to be used to scale the form factor of our servers from 2U down to 1U systems in order to maximize the amount of servers we could have within our current rack. Harry injected much needed additional capital to keep the business ticking over. Jordan quickly found that offering such a wide spectrum of services was putting a considerable strain on both finances, and himself and needed to scale back to core services which had the most demand and in which capital expenditure was quickly returned in order to further the growth of the business.Įnter Harry Beasant! Harry joined the Nitrous Networks family in December 2010 with a 10% stake in the company. But it wasn’t without its faults, like most hardware produced between 2008 & 2010, but still, Jordan ploughed through any issues and soon was hosting for over 100 customers within a couple of months of operating. And proceeded to collocate it within a data centre located in Cheltenham. We had started out buying a job lot of hardware recently decommissioned from a London based hosting provider for a very low price. Initially in 2010, Nitrous Networks offered a wide array of services including game servers, dedicated servers, web hosting, virtual private servers, and also voice servers.
Striving to deliver a more affordable approach to game servers, that's both reliable and feature rich! 2010
With a very generous start up loan injected into the company by Jordan’s father, Jordan began the journey of what Nitrous Networks is today! Providing game, voice and web services to thousands of customers located all around the globe.
Nitrous Networks was created in July of 2010 by Jordan Bryant. Learn what Nitrous Networks is about and strives for.
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