In some cases, shared hosting just isn't the right solution for your business website or email needs. However, if you don't have a leased line such as a T1 or a dedicated wireless connection you may not be willing to trust your servers' availability to on-site commodity service availability. In such cases, server co-location is a great solution.

What is server colocation?

Server colocation is an arrangement whereby we provide space and bandwidth in our data center for you to bring a server and place it in our data center. This server is YOUR property, and we do NOT have access to your server unless you choose to provide it. We are responsible for providing battery-backed AC power to your system, unless you elect to provide your own UPS to reduce cost.

There is no commitment or contract required, all you need to do is contact us and inquire about server colocation. Once your account is set up either bring your server to our office, or have it shipped to our location.

Resources are purchased on a block basis, the most common question we get is "Is 100GB of data transfer enough?". The best way to answer that is to say that all four Valnet hosting servers use about half of that per month. In short, you can do a lot of things with 100GB per month! Of course, it does depend how busy your website is, but we estimate that this amount of bandwidth would amply supply the vast majority of colocation customers.

How much does it cost?

Pricing is based on physical space used in the data center, as well as power and bandwidth consumption.

 * Remote Power Management: This feature provides web based remote access to our power management console. From this site, you can physically turn power to your server on or off.

Additional Options

 ** Off site Backup: You must provide the method of actually performing off site backup, such as a portable hard drive which our staff will rotate out to our off site backup storage location. This charge does not apply if you wish to rotate this yourself, i.e. come to our office and pick up a removable drive or tape module.

 Terms Of Service

• On-Site access hours are 8am to 5pm, Monday through Friday. On-Site access outside these hours will incur a $25/hr technician fee.
  
• Server Colocation does not include server managment services such as replacing hardware or making configuration changes. These services are available during normal hours for a fee of $50/hr with a one hour minimum. Outside of normal hours, these services are $75/hr.
• Additional power usage surcharges may be reduced to $5 per 500W by providing your own UPS.
• Systems exhibiting worm/hacker infection will be removed from the network IMMIDIATELY.
• Sending SPAM is absolutely not tolerated. Any colocation customer found to be knowingly sending SPAM will immidiately have their service terminated, without possibility of reinstatement.
• You are required to allow SNMP monitoring of your server by our telemetry system.
• "Data Transfer" is defined as the sum total of inbound and outbound traffic, in bytes.