Wi-Manx Blog
We have just finished upgrading our home user mail server to the latest version. The new software has many new features and is a vast improvement on the old version. Customers should find the new server is far quicker with a much slicker web-mail interface.
Customers can login in two ways;
- From the webmail interface – https://webmail.manxbroadband.com
You need to login using your mailbox account (e.g. WCX20002-9) and password - From the webmail login page (RECOMMENDED) https://secure.wimanx.com/webmail
You can login using your e-mail address and password
Customers who connect using POP3 or IMAP shouldn’t need to change any settings.
If you have any problems – please get in touch 641188 – or using support@wimanx.com (provided your e-mail works of course!)
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Wi-Manx are one of the main sponsors of the Manx Hockey Association, through our sponsorship, we play our part in developing and progressing the sport of Hockey on the Isle of Man. We’ve included some pictures of below of the Wi-Manx sponsored kit – as used in the JDC (Junior Development Centre) Single System recently.
The JDC sessions concentrated on core skills with emphasis been placed primarily on ‘ball carrying’ skills and ‘hitting and trapping’. Match play also formed part of these sessions, to where these core skills were carried through.
The Under 13 girls had the opportunity of playing visiting school side Kirkham and benefited greatly from this experience.
Work has been continuing at Heywood House – with a focus on the electrical, cooling and fire suppression systems.
We recently took delivery of the first batch of custom server cabinets and high capacity dry-air-coolers.
The server cabinets (and the associated kit) will be formed into uniform ‘pods’ of cabinets. These cabinet pods utilise a highly efficient cold-aisle containment system and are mounted to the raised floor system using an innovate RAFT system developed by Cannon Technologies. Modern cabinet system designs such as these help drive down the PUE value of a datacentre and the innovative nature of the systems introduce many other benefits relating to security and operational efficiency.
The images below show the cabinets in situ – with the cold-aisle containment system yet to be installed. Two of eight N+1 Riello UPS systems can also be seen, which provide battery backup to the IT load – along with some high capacity dry-air-coolers which provide cooling for the IT load within the facility.
With the redevelopment of our multi-million pound, 9000 sq-ft Heywood House headquarters nearing completion – we will be relocating aspects of the Wi-Manx operation back to our new headquarters. This change should bring many benefits – with our technical support, net-ops, sales, accounts and management teams all being located under one roof.
The main change for you, the customer is that all our sales\accounts\tech-support operations will be handled out of our new headquarters.
With aspects of the operation being relocated back to Heywood House, the Victoria Street store will be closing on Friday 26th November, the new office will be open the following Monday.
For customers who have taken advantage of our £100 voucher offer – the vouchers are still 100% valid and can be redeemed against a wide range of routers, wireless equipment, voip devices, media-players, memory cards and netbooks. Our sales office\reception at Heywood House will handle all sales enquiries, vouchers, accounts queries and technical support issues.
If you have any questions – please e-mail accounts@wimanx.com
There’s a buzz of activity at Heywood House at the moment, contractors are busy working away on the fire suppression systems, electrics, flooring, the goods lift – a good opportunity for some more pictures.
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- IG55 Gas bottles
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- 10 year UPS Batteries
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- Data Room 1 – work in progress
I have added some pictures of our new LV switchgear that’s being installed at Heywood House. There are several of these panels that handle the power distribution throughout the datacentre, the auto-changeover for the generators, the input\output from the UPS systems etc. The panels are manufactured by UK Company Mardix – a specialist in switchgear and critical power systems.
There are different panels for the separate A+B power supplies and as you can see from the images, every output is metered (and recorded via modbus\snmp) – so we know exactly where every Amp of power is going.
We’ve recently announced that our Heywood House data centre project is well underway. The aim was to build an energy efficient, world-class hosting facility on the Isle of Man – this would provide the necessary infrastructure to support our continued growth but also enable us to launch a new range of hosting products and services. Whilst we wanted Heywood House to be somewhat of a green facility (with a low PUE), we haven’t compromised on the specification to achieve this level of efficiency.
We spent the best part of a year researching different facilities, varying approaches to data centre cooling, data centre case studies and we closely followed the progress of other datacentre developments in the UK, Ireland and further afield. This research, collaboration with leading equipment vendors – and a lengthly design phase culminated in the blueprint for the current project.
Every part of the data centre will be made up of premium components, whether that be the generators, switchgear, the UPS systems, access control, lighting systems, cooling, cabinets or the power distribution systems – each and every component is, we believe – best in class. Heywood House should be one of the most modern facilities of its type on the Isle of Man, and it should be right up there with the best metro data centres in the UK.
A brief overview of the datacentre specification can be found below, in the coming days we’ll add some pictures to give you an insight into the project as it develops. Read more…
Wi-Manx Limited – an Isle of Man based ISP and hosting provider are in the final stages of a project that will see their Heywood House headquarters transformed into a multimillion pound, state of the art datacentre. Due for completion in 2011 – the new datacentre is set to be the most modern facility of its type on the Isle of Man.
Edward Whipp, MD of Wi-Manx commented;
We have experienced rapid growth since our formation in 2004 and we were looking to continue this growth by embracing new markets.
As one of the leading service providers on the Isle of Man we are often approached by businesses looking for complex hosting, disaster recover or co-location solutions – I’m glad to say that in a few months time we’ll be able to offer our customers a world-class portfolio of hosting products and services.
We made the decision to expand our operation last year and this significant private investment underlines our commitment to the Isle of Man and our confidence in the e-business sector.
The project is a major undertaking for Wi-Manx and only serves to further enhance the Isle of Man’s reputation as being at the fore-front of e-business. The first phase of the project is nearing completion with full commissioning of the datacentre expected to be completed in Q1 2011.
As part of the continued expansion, Wi-Manx’s operations at Victoria Street will soon be incorporated into their 9000 sq ft Headquarters at Heywood House in Ridgeway Street.
Wi-Manx are pleased to announce that they are now a Citrix Authorized Service Provider.
With this partnership, Wi-Manx are now positioned to offer a wide range of virtualisation solutions including virtual servers, hosted desktops, hosted applications and ‘Cloud’ solutions. With a modern hosting centre, high performance network, knowledgeable technical staff and innovation at their core – Wi-Manx will soon be launching a range of products and servers that leverage the Citrix Platform.
Joe Hughes, CTO of Wi-Manx added;
After seeing first hand the growth in Cloud Architecture we felt it was important to develop that area of our infrastructure. We feel the solutions from Citrix offer us unrivaled flexibility utilizing a cloud-proven platform. It is widely acknowledged that Xen® is one of the fastest and most secure virtualisation platforms in the industry and a key driver in our decision making process.
We look forward to launching a wide range of cost-effective, cutting-edge virtualisation products and services in the coming months.
A new community centre in Ballasalla now has high speed broadband access thanks to the support of leading ISP Wi-Manx Limited. In October – Ballasalla Community Partnership opened their new community centre to the public at Clagh Vane, Ballasalla.
Ballasalla Community Partnership, comprises Malew Commissioners, the departments of health and social services, education, local government and the environment, the Children’s Centre, police and Graham Cregeen MHK. With the community centre very much at the hub of community – Wi-Manx were pleased to provide a high speed broadband internet connection and a modern personal computer.
Edward Whipp, MD of Wi-Manx commented;
Wi-Manx are pleased to be supporting such an important community project. When we learnt of the project we were pleased to assist the Partnership with their endeavors. We set about providing the centre with a high speed ADSL connection. We wish the Ballasalla Community Project every success and commend their efforts in offering the people of Ballasalla a much needed community facility.
The website of the Ballasalla Community Partnership can be found below;
http://ballasallacommunitypartnership.community.officelive.com/default.aspx