Established in 1996, our experience in supplying businesses with best in class Internet, connectivity and hosting services is something other providers envy.
Privately owned, with its head office and highly qualified staff operating from its own datacentre in Fleet, Hampshire, just a few minutes from J4A of the M3, Datanet is the one name you can trust to deliver your hosting and connectivity solutions. Three additional datacentre facilities in London provide a comprehensive service in London and the South East where Datanet has a strong presence.
The hosting and connectivity solutions we provide have the added benefit of having direct access to our Technical, Sales, Operations and Accounts teams, all with a wealth of experience and answered within four rings of the phone.
Our newest datacentre in Fleet has been designed to supply a higher power allowance in a cost and energy efficient manner and, combined with our London datacentres, forms our core infrastructure available for your distributed network.
With secure hosting and dedicated IP connections, Datanet is a recognised name you can rely upon to help your business develop and grow.
Datanet's Promise
To dedicate our time and attention to finding, delivering and supporting the right Hosting and Connectivity Solution for your business.
Our people are a dedicated team of professionals with total commitment to customer satisfaction and care.
All our personnel are based at our newest datacentre, Aspen House and it is Datanet’s policy to always answer our ‘phones within four rings, we know how irritating it can be listening to a ringing ‘phone!
Some of our key members of staff are listed below
Conleth McCallan
Managing Director
Conleth started Datanet in 1996 along with Geoff Fairfield and has grown the company from the early days as a traditional ISP providing ‘Dial Up’ Internet connectivity. A far cry from the Datanet that we know and love today!
Julia Neal
Operations Manager
Julia joined Datanet in 1997 and now heads our Operations Team. Julia has a wealth of knowledge and she, and her team, provide a first class service to our customers.
Andrew Jeanmonod
IT Systems Manager
Andy was the original Datanet Technician and in the last ten years has seen many technological changes in the products and services that Datanet provides. Andy (and his colleague Max) did his weeks VMware advanced training in February'09 and in May'09 (both) qualified as a VCPs (VMware Certified Professional) so he stands ready to support you with your VMware virtualisation requirements along with the Technical Team he heads up.
Lee Burke
IP Solutions Consultant
Lee has been part of the Datanet Sales Team for four years and has helped his customers with hosting and connectivity solutions from the very simple all the way to some very complex and multi-site requirements. Lee knows his stuff when it comes to your hosting and connection requirements, and... has recently achieved his "VSP" so he is a VMware Sales Professional.
Nathan Smith
IP Solutions Consultant
Nathan joined the Datanet Team a couple of years ago with a strong background in connectivity solutions, including Private Circuits, MPLS and Ethernet Extensions, he knows how to get the best out of our fibre providers like BT and NTL so you can benefit. Like Lee, Nathan has also just recently achieved his "VSP".
Since 1996 Datanet has been dedicated to providing first class Hosting and Connectivity Solutions to businesses and has received awards and nominations from the industry's recognised association, the ISPA, and other professional bodies. The Internet Service Providers Association’s impartial judges have expertise and experience that qualify them to represent such a prestigious association for the Internet sector.
Some of our achievements are listed here
- BT Outstanding Achievement Award – 2008
- ISPA Winner Best Business Broadband - 2008
- ISPA Winner Best Business Broadband - 2007
- ISPA Winner Best National Business ISP - 2005
- ISPA Finalist Best National Business ISP – 2008
- Commended for Corporate Social Responsibility - 2007
- ISPA Finalist Best National Business ISP - 2007
- ISPA Finalist Best Business Broadband ISP – 2007
- Business of the Year South East Region - 2005
- ISPA Finalist Best Metered ISP - 2005
- ISPA Finalist Best Un-Metered Dial-up - 2005
- ISPA Finalist Best Sumo Business Broadband - 2005
- ISPA Finalist Best Heavy Business Broadband - 2005
- ISPA Finalist Best Light Business Broadband - 2005
- ISPA Finalist Best National Business ISP - 2005
- ISPA Finalist Best National Business ISP - 2004
- ISPA Finalist Best Business Broadband ISP - 2004
Aspen House Fleet or "AHF" is our own data centre opened here in Fleet, Hampshire, in June 2008.
With over 4,000 sq ft of data centre space this brand new facility is the ideal option for companies based in the South East looking for hosting facilities outside of London.
In addition, Datanet also has data centre facilities in three of the UK's leading data centres, Equinix in Heathrow, and Telehouse and Telecity, both in London's Docklands. All offer state of the art hosting facilities to ensure maximum security for your servers and data.
All four data centres offer the high standards expected of award-winning facilities, with advanced services backed by market leading Service Level Agreements. With Datanet looking after your servers you can rest assured that they are housed in a highly secure and resilient environment.
The Aspen House data centre specification can be found here 
All our data centres have the following features:
- Secure Reception: Entry to the data centre is gained via zone-specific personal security passes which are used for both entry and exit providing for anti-tailgating and anti-passback levels of security.
- CCTV Cameras: Colour CCTV cameras are sited throughout the exterior and interior of the building.
- Proprietary Cabling Structure: Diverse fibre routing available from several carriers. Fully established truncated internal cable network. Incorporating enclosed and protected Telco room with redundant bandwidth delivery.
- Air Conditioning: The air conditioning system is configured with 100% built-in redundancy. Effectively, only half of the air conditioning units are required to support the data centre at maximum occupancy.
- Uninterrupted Power Supply: Should mains supply fail at any time, a series of battery powered UPS's already in circuit powers all the hosted equipment. On-site generators provide mains power back up with sufficient fuel capacity to maintain full power for up to 4 days with contracts in place to supply diesel same day.
Datanet's network is at the heart of our business. It is designed with no single point of failure so that there are no interruptions or compromises in the quality and level of service.
The addition of Aspen House to our infrastructure gives us even greater independence and allows a far wider range of options for our customers with the added benefit of having our own engineers here on-site next to your servers and our critical infrastructure.
Datanet use multiple carriers for redundancy and resilience and also actively peer with other ISPs at multiple Internet Exchanges e.g. LINX the London Internet Exchange, ensuring Internet traffic is routed to its destination over the fastest and shortest path.
We at Datanet have the independence of owning and managing our own network and we consistently invest in our infrastructure to ensure we remain one of the UK's leading ISP's providing the Business Class Internet service.