Your own servers in a Dutch data center

At the back of the warehouse stands a cabinet with two servers, a switch, and a loose air conditioner that just cannot keep up in summer. Everyone knows you must not turn that cabinet off, but nobody knows exactly anymore which cable goes where. If the contractor pulls the circuit, the whole administration stands still. Colocation takes that equipment away from the chances of your own building.

What colocation actually is

With colocation the hardware stays yours, but it is no longer with you. You rent space in a rack in a data center: a number of rack units, an amount of power, a network connection, and physical access by agreement. Everything that makes a server room expensive is shared there by dozens of companies at once.

We arrange the space you need in our managed environments in the Netherlands, so you do not have to deal with contracts and tours yourself. We choose the location together with you, based on where the equipment has to be, which network providers come in, and how fast someone has to be able to get to it physically.

When owning hardware still makes sense

The cloud is not always the answer. There are reasons to own equipment yourself: a license tied to a physical machine, a test setup or machine control that has to stay local, an auditor who wants to know which building the disks are in, or simply a set of servers you bought last year that will last for years.

Heavy computing capacity is another common case. If you have a machine of your own with a GPU running for image recognition or language models, an office cabinet is rarely the right place for it: too hot, too noisy, and too vulnerable. If you specifically do not want to own that capacity, AI hosting (GPU) is the alternative where you only take the computing time.

What we do in and around the rack

We start with an inventory: which machines you have, how much space and power they need, and what may be off for a while during the move. Then we plan the moment. You do not move a server cabinet on a Tuesday morning at eleven, so we choose a window in which your business is least affected, and we agree in advance how we fall back if something does not start.

In the data center we build the equipment in, label every cable, and record which port belongs to which machine. Then we set up the network: addresses, firewall, VPN to your office, and monitoring of power, temperature, disks, and reachability. You get a rack diagram that matches reality, so the next intervention does not start with puzzling. If virtual machines run on it too, that connects seamlessly to VPS hosting within the same environment.

Outages, backups, and ownership

Monitoring runs continuously: systems watch and raise the alarm, and what happens after that we record in advance in an escalation route. Who gets called, within what period we step in remotely, and when the data center is asked to replace something physically. That set of expectations matters more than a nice number in a brochure.

One rack is not yet certainty. Hardware breaks, and a disk that fails on Friday while the last copy is months old costs you more than the whole move. So we always arrange Backup and disaster recovery along with it, and if your business really cannot stand still we look at High availability and failover with a second location. Meanwhile the equipment, the data, and the configuration stay yours: you are the owner and you can go somewhere else with your own gear at any time. We start with a free intake in which we go through your current cabinet together.