Colocation Data-centre or Provider in Datacentre

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carelburger

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I am trying to find a data-centre or provider who rents space per U for you own servers. Basically I will need to store quite a bit of data (Few terabytes) which a normal server will not be able to provide, thus I need to use my own server.

There are plenty of international data-centres that does this, but it seems you normally need to hire an entire rack in this country which is not on the cheap side.

Does anyone know who might offer a serve like this. I am not having much luck on google.
 
PM me with some details about your requirements and I'll provide some pricing in one of our Gauteng DCs.
 
Why not have a look at IS and renting a vault from them? We are in the process of looking to create a geocluster for our DC and splitting it across two IS DCs. This will include our centralized exchange model with upwards of 400 TBs, and in total we will be hosting around 700 TB of data when including our Hyper-V environments and other production systems.
 
Hi Carelburger,

We offer colocated hosting in Cape Town. Please PM me your details so we may contact you.
 
After some more googling I found a few possibilities. Its seems the actual rack space is not so expensive, its more the price of the bandwidth that will kill you.

I would have thought bandwidth would be cheaper since most ISP's peer in the bigger data centres like Teraco and its a high density of interconnections. NapAfrica are now peering at 1 gbps in Cape Town. From my calculations its cheaper (not counting the cost per U price, only bandwidth) to get Neotel to install fibre to you premises and build your own DC. OK yes AC and UPS + Generators are expensive, but it seems the data will be so much cheaper.
 
what sort of traffic do you require and how many U's?
Is the location of the data center a factor?
What prices have you been given so far - if you havent already signed up with a provider
 
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