Cloud CoLocation
House your servers in a professionally managed, carrier-neutral data centre — enterprise-grade power, cooling and connectivity without the cost of your own facility.
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House your servers in a professionally managed, carrier-neutral data centre. Benefit from enterprise-grade power, cooling and connectivity without the cost of building your own facility.
With flexible rack space from quarter-rack to full cabinets, our colocation services scale with your business. Enjoy resilient power supplies, climate-controlled environments and access to multiple tier-1 carriers — all backed by 24/7 support.
Carrier-neutral is the phrase that does the most work in this description and the one most often glossed over. It means the facility does not also want to be your network provider, so you can put two genuinely different carriers into the same rack and choose on price and route rather than on what the operator resells. In a single-carrier facility, resilience is a claim rather than a design.
On sizing, most businesses need considerably less space than they expect. A quarter rack holds more than a small company usually has, and the sensible approach is to take what you need now with room to grow rather than a full cabinet for equipment that does not exist yet. Scaling up later is an administrative change, so paying for empty space in advance buys nothing.
CoLocation Benefits
Carrier Neutral
Choose from multiple carrier providers for the best connectivity, pricing and resilience — no vendor lock-in.
Enterprise Infrastructure
Enterprise-grade power, cooling and physical security infrastructure without the capital expenditure of building your own.
Flexible Space
From quarter-rack to full cabinets, scale your colocation space as your business grows — with no long-term commitments required.
Who we work with
We are independent of any single network or vendor, so the recommendation follows the requirement.
Network & security
We build on the platform that fits the requirement rather than the one we happen to stock.
Fortinet
Palo Alto
Ubiquiti
Forcepoint
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Cloud CoLocation — Common Questions
How small can I start?
Quarter-rack, and for most small businesses that is more space than the equipment actually needs. You can scale up to full cabinets as you grow without a long-term commitment up front, so taking what you need now rather than what you might need in three years is nearly always the better decision — empty rack space costs the same as full rack space.
What does carrier-neutral mean for me?
You are free to pick the connectivity provider that gives you the best price and resilience, rather than being tied to whatever the data centre operator resells. It also makes genuine diversity possible: two different carriers on physically separate routes into the building, which is what resilience actually means as opposed to two circuits from the same supplier down the same duct.
Who is responsible for the servers themselves?
You are. Colocation provides the space, power, cooling, security and connectivity; the hardware, the operating systems, the patching and whatever runs on them remain yours. That is not a criticism of the model, but it is the thing most often misunderstood at the point of signing, and it is worth deciding deliberately whether you also want the management.
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