Dedicated server - renting a dedicated server in Germany

You do not necessarily have to order dedicated switches – Colobridge customers can rent respective extra ports of 1Gbit, 10GBit, 8/16GBit FC and even 40/100GBit.

It is possible for Colobridge customers. Dedicated server solutions are best suitable for creating private clouds. You can rent the number of ports you need and build a distributed network for the cluster. If need be, we will provide at your disposal FC (Fiber Channel) as a dedicated data transmission channel. To store large amounts of data, our customers can use SDS (Software defined Storage).

Colobridge is a Microsoft partner as per SPLA (Services Provider License Agreement). It enables monthly licensing of Microsoft products meeting the Agreement requirements to host software services and applications for its customers. SPLA supports a wide variety of software deployment scenarios, so customized and reliable solutions can be offered depending on customers’ business needs. Thus, if you need a dedicated server together with licensed software, we will provide you with the required software products for rent so that you can save on expensive licenses. Some types of software (in particular, from Microsoft) are subject to special licensing conditions when previously licenses that had been purchased before can be transferred to the servers that the client uses as part of the Dedicated and Private Cloud.

Typical burdensome IT infrastructure support tasks can be transferred to Colobridge team. All Colobridge services, including dedicated servers for rent, are provided with a basic support level that ensures that services provided are high quality and available. We also offer to order extra services – administering operating systems and applications, as well as hardware support by Colobridge team. Colobridge technicians will promptly replace the failed component with a working one from the replacement stock at the provider’s own warehouse in the data centre. If the hardware is covered by warranty, the vendor sends a new component within the time specified in the support contract—for example, next business day—and the defective component is returned to the vendor. Also, the provider is responsible for all other problems with hardware operations: natural wear and tear, malfunctions, and even suspicions that hardware will fail.

Colobridge team will provide access to the management network of your servers via VPN. Currently, all servers rented by customers under Dedicated are equipped with remote console tools – Supermicro IPMI, HPE ILO or Dell IDrac, depending on the manufacturer.

Colobridge customers rent dedicated servers which are de facto located in Telehouse Frankfurt (Tier III) and Equinix FR4 (Tier III+) data centres in Germany. Both have a fully uninterrupted power source and cooling infrastructure to prevent server shutdowns because of power outages or overheating and have the following certificates: ISO 9001 Management Quality, ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management, ISAE3402 / SSAE16 Type 2 Audit of Service Management, PCI-DSS Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. Telehouse, which has been operating since 2012, is 25,000 m², which makes it one of the largest data centres in Germany. Equinix has a history spanning over 20 years, with clients like Netflix, Zoom, Lufthansa, Tele2 and Cisco.

Colobridge platform operates in accordance with the best global practices in the field of data protection and complies with all relevant security requirements. We are responsible for the physical security, protection and customer network delineation. Also, hardware protection and safety are ensured by local legislation which applies to all data centres operating in German jurisdiction.

This option is not available now, but we intend to implement it soon. Follow our blog for updates.

On Colobridge platform, you can combine any physical and cloud products as long as they can be technically implemented. In particular, you can combine a dedicated server with another service or the same dedicated server in the second data centre to get an even more fault-tolerant geographically distributed solution.

Colobridge customers can rent a physical server having any configuration currently available on the market. However, Colobridge technical experts recommend using best value for money configurations in order to optimize the cost and time it takes to assemble and deliver hardware.