Colocation by the rack unit, for small networks
You bring the hardware and the ASN. We are building the space, the power, the port and the BGP session at the Westin — a rack unit at a time, for the networks that are too small for a cabinet and too serious for a shared VPS.
Before you read any further
This is a pre-launch interest register. Nothing here is a quote, no capacity is reserved, and no service is being sold today.
Four shapes
We do not publish prices yet. We have requested no quotes and hold no cabinet, so any number we printed today would be a planning figure we would have to retract. Tell us the shape you need and a budget band, and you will get a written quote as soon as our own are in.
A shape is a row of attributes — rack units, amps, port speed, transfer allowance, IPv6, a BGP session to your ASN, out-of-band access and remote hands. That is what a buyer compares, and it is what we can describe honestly before a cabinet exists.
Colo-1U “Peer”
One rack unit, one amp at 208 volts, a 1 Gbps port with a 10 TB/mo allowance, one IPv4 address and a /64, a BGP session to your ASN, and IPMI over WireGuard. The shape for a router, a nameserver or one well-behaved box.
Colo-2U
Two rack units and 1.5 amps. Otherwise the 1U shape, unchanged — the same port, the same allowance, the same session.
Colo-4U
Four rack units and 2.5 amps. The shape an MSP placing a customer's box usually asks for, and the one with room for a second machine later.
Colo-10U “Grow”
A locking 10U section, eight amps, and a 250 Mbps 95th-percentile commit instead of a transfer allowance. Later phase — enquire. Until we hold a full cabinet this is a referral, and we will say so rather than take the order.
Managed, on any of them
Managed is an option on every tier, not a fifth tier: remote hands beyond the basic allowance, OS install and configuration, monitoring, patching, backups, and managed BGP when you want your own ASN announced without running the session yourself. Scope is set in a managed-services schedule to the master agreement.
Transit for colocation customers is sold as 95th-percentile commits from 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps.
The same four shapes, to scale
Rack units are the unit of sale, so they are the unit of the drawing. The empty units between the shapes are empty units, not a promise about who is beside you.
What every shape includes
The 1U shape in full. The larger shapes add rack units and power and change nothing else about this list.
- One amp at 208 volts on the 1U shape — about 200 W continuous, at the 80%-of-rated convention that every honest colocation quote uses
- A 1 Gbps port with a 10 TB/mo transfer allowance
- One IPv4 address and a /64 — and a /48 with every service
- A BGP session to your ASN, filtered against IRR and RPKI
- IPMI reachable over a WireGuard out-of-band link, never the public internet
- Remote-triggered blackholing and FastNetMon as the abuse baseline
- Escorted access, and basic remote hands at no charge
Transfer beyond the allowance is billed; the rate publishes with the rest of our pricing. The 1U, 2U and 4U shapes are metered by allowance and not by 95th percentile — the 95th applies to the 10U shape and to transit bought on its own.
Add-ons, listed by what they are
Every one of these is a thing you can buy on top of a shape. None of them has a published rate today, for the same reason the shapes do not.
- Extra amps, when the machine draws more than the shape includes
- Extra transfer, or a 95th-percentile commit instead of an allowance
- Additional IPv4 addresses, individually or as a block
- A cross-connect to another tenant in the building
- A 10 Gbps port, where the shape ships with a 1 Gbps one
- Remote hands beyond the basic allowance — which is where the managed option below usually starts
An overage exists on every metered line and we will name it in writing before you sign anything. What we will not do is print a number we have not been quoted.
Why these shapes and not others
- 1 Because a rack unit is what a small network actually needs. A quarter cabinet is the smallest thing most Seattle providers will sell, and it is eight units of which a small network uses one. Selling the unit rather than the cabinet is the whole product.
- 2 Because power, not space, is the constraint. Every shape names its amps, because the amp is what runs out first in a cabinet and the number nobody publishes is the number that decides whether your box fits. A shape with unstated power is not a shape.
- 3 Because IPv4 is scarce and IPv6 is not. Each IPv4 address costs money to lease and the registry waitlist is measured in months, so IPv4 is metered. A /48 with every service costs us nothing and solves the problem properly, so it is not.
- 4 Because 95th percentile is how transit is actually bought. An allowance or a 95th commit is a number you can plan against. “Unmetered” is a number somebody else gets to reinterpret later, which is how small hosts die.
None of these four is a price justification. They are the reasons the shapes have the edges they have.
The managed option
Colocation is the floor: we give you space, power, a port and a session, and the machine is yours to run. Managed is the same footprint with our hands on it — remote hands beyond the basic allowance, OS install and configuration, monitoring, patching, backups, and managed BGP for a customer who wants their own ASN announced without running the session. It is an option on every tier, not a fifth tier, which is how it is bought and what keeps the table one dimension wide.
The audience we hear it from most is the MSP or agency placing a customer's hardware somewhere with a real network under it — buying the colocation and the hands in one line rather than running a second relationship. Scope lives in a managed-services schedule to the master agreement, not in a paragraph on a marketing page.
The other lines, in one block
Virtual machines
KVM instances on NVMe, with a BGP session available on the same terms as the colocation shapes. Sized by vCPU, memory, disk and transfer.
Transit and IP blocks
95th-percentile transit on its own port, IPv4 leased and announced by us or by you with a letter of authorisation, and IPv6 sub-allocations for network customers.
Dedicated hardware
A box we build and own, or a white-label machine from a Seattle supplier when the spec matters more than the address. Built to order, never held in stock.
Scrubbed transit
An on-demand tunnel that keeps traffic clean during an attack, for the customers our baseline is not enough for. It activates when enough customers commit to it, and not before.
Managed hosting for records-keeping firms
A managed machine with encrypted off-site backups, patching and retention reporting, for the law, notary, title and escrow firms the sister business already serves.
Write-once retention storage
Object storage with object lock, retention and legal-hold reporting, and an export on request. The paperwork is the product.
Two things we can already tell you about terms
Colocation is month to month. There is no minimum term on the 1U, 2U and 4U shapes, and a 12-month prepay earns a discount and locks your price; ask us. That is a mechanism, not a percentage — we will put the number in the quote, where it belongs.
You insure your own hardware, and we will ask for a certificate before anything goes on the floor. That is the building's rule before it is ours, and every provider in the building has it.
Tell us the shape you need
A shape, a rough timeline and a budget band is enough. If you would rather just ask a question, the same form takes that instead — and the optional parts are what tell us whether to build the managed line at all.
Everything on this page describes a service we intend to offer. It is not a binding offer capable of acceptance, no capacity is reserved, nothing here is a quote, and specifications will change. Our Terms explain what this page is and is not.