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The Servnet Hub

The Hub is the index to everything Servnet publishes: four article libraries, 78 free tools and the spec references behind them. This page says what each one is for, so you can go straight to the one you need instead of searching the site.

If you already know what you are trying to do, the three routes below are quicker than browsing.

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You need to understand something for the first time

Start in Learn. It answers the questions people actually ask — what RTO and RPO really mean, what a leased line buys you over FTTP, whether Microsoft 365 needs backing up — in plain English and without a sales pitch. Where an answer needs more depth than an explainer can carry, the article links through to the matching technical piece.

You are specifying, sizing or buying

Insightscarries the long-form technical work: per-model buyer’s guides, sizing methods, migration playbooks and compliance deep-dives. Next to it sit the references you check while you spec — 108 server data sheets for the current Dell, HPE and Lenovo ranges, the side-by-side comparison tool, and free tools for the arithmetic, such as the RAID calculator and the end-of-service-life checker.

You are keeping up with what changed

News covers developments in UK IT infrastructure as they happen, with the primary source named on every article and a plain answer to what it changes for a buyer. Research is the slower work: original studies built from public data, most of them publishing the dataset alongside so the figures can be checked or reused.

What is in the Hub

Six sections. The first four are written libraries; the last two are the calculators and the spec references those libraries lean on.

Insights291 insights

Long-form technical articles for whoever has to specify, buy or run the kit — buyer's guides for individual server and storage models, architecture deep-dives, migration playbooks and UK compliance guides.

Latest insight
Data Use and Access Act 2025: What Changes for IT
Cyber Security · 10 Oct 2026
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News214 articles

Same-day analysis of the developments shaping UK IT infrastructure — AI and GPUs, servers, storage, networking, cyber, backup and maintenance — written against named primary sources.

Latest news
UK Data Centre Grid Queue Crisis: What to Do in 2026
Servers & compute · 22 Oct 2026

How the desk works, and the cite-or-drop rule it runs on, is set out in our editorial standards.

Research108 studies

Original data studies rather than round-ups: public data gathered, checked and counted ourselves, with the method stated, the sources named and — for most studies — the dataset published for anyone to reuse.

Free tools78 tools

Calculators, converters, finders and checkers across 9 areas — storage, power & cooling, security, cloud & backup and more. They do the arithmetic the buyer's guides describe.

StoragePower & CoolingSecurityCloud & BackupNetworkingEmail & DNSCost & PlanningDeveloperConfigurators

Most-used: the RAID calculator, the server and network EOSL checker and the ESXi and Windows Server compatibility checker.

Spec references108 data sheets

The numbers the articles are argued from, kept separate from the prose: one data sheet per current Dell PowerEdge, HPE ProLiant and Lenovo ThinkSystem model, checked against the vendors' own documentation.

Server data sheets — cores, memory, bays, GPUs and power, model by model
Server head-to-heads — two models set against each other on the same fields
Product comparison tool — build your own side-by-side across laptops, firewalls, storage and more

How it is written and checked

News runs on a cite-or-drop rule: a claim that cannot be traced to a named primary source does not go out. Editorial standards sets out the method in full. Research studies carry their sources and, in most cases, the dataset behind the figures; if you find an error in one, the corrections and takedown policy says how it gets fixed and recorded.

For who is behind it: about Servnet, the UK locations we cover, or talk to us.

💷 Spread the cost · IT finance

Spread the cost of your next IT project

From the server, storage and networking guides in the Hub to a full refresh — spread the cost of your rollout across a manageable monthly payment with hire purchase, leasing or a technology subscription for UK businesses.

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Indicative estimate · subject to change · no credit check at this stage · hire purchase, lease & subscription for UK businesses

Indicative illustration only. Servnet Limited is not authorised or regulated by the FCA and does not provide financial advice or arrange finance. All finance opportunities are referred to Number Eight Business Finance. Finance policy

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