Colocation Servers

Colocation America relies on improving bandwidth for your servers while securing and managing your data from outages and breaches 24/7/365. We give your business flexibility to collocate within our 22 data centers at affordable and reliable data transmissions.

Server Colocation
Starting at $50/month.

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Colocation America’s colocation facilities are designed with cutting edge electrical features and ample cooling systems to ensure the superb performance and availability of your systems under virtually any condition. Our facilities are secured by round the clock on site security teams, and with restricted keycard access. Your servers are locked in secure racks and monitored by constant video surveilence cameras for an extra layer of protection.

Colocation America has a national infrastructure of colo facilities in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and San Francisco.
With redundant UPS and diesel generators, along with in-depth environmental controls, our American Telecom data center is one of the fastest, most reliable facilities available for clients connecting to East Asia.

Our 7th Street Los Angeles mission-critical data center features 450,000 square feet of space, with comprehensive HVAC and electrical infrastructure. The facility is considered one of the most prominent collocation sites in the western United States.

* High-Performance Equipment – Our servers are built using top of the line hardware. We have the processor power, storage capacity and hardware capabilities to drive your online business without sacrificing flexibility, scalability or reliability.
* Higher Availability – As a dedicated server, your system is never at the mercy of usage spikes by other sites. Your dedicated Server has a greater level of reliability and uptime guaranteed.
* Hardened Security – You control all privileges and access to your dedicated server. No other customer has access, no other customer can introduce weaknesses and vulnerabilities to attack and hacks.
* Complete Control – Install the internet protocols, web services and custom software applications best suited for your server.
* Scalability for Your Business – Our dedicated servers give you a clear upgrade path. Hardware and OS components of system can be upgraded as-needed.

Industry-Leading Customer Care and Support

Keeping up with your own server requires a sophisticated IT staff, either on payroll or contract. It can be an expensive and grueling undertaking. Using our dedicated servers allows you to offload those support requirements to our expert support staff.

Typical Servers in our System

• Dell Power Edge 2650 Dual Xeon 3.06 4G Ram 2x146GB SCSI Hard drives Raid Key
• Dell Power Edge 2850 2 X 3.6GHz Xeon, 1MB Cache CPU’s 4GB of ECC DDR Ram 3 x 146GB 10K SCSI Raid PERC 4E/DI w/256MB of Cache
• Dell Power Edge 2950 2 x Intel Dual Core CPU 2.66GHz 1333FSB 4MB cache 4GB 667Mhz Ram 3 x 146GB 15K SAS Raid 6I PCI-E SAS Integrated

The second largest aspect of the billing and pricing of collocation services is what they typically refer to as bandwidth charges. This is somewhat misleading of a name because bandwidth typically refers just to the amount of possible data per second that the connection can handle but what the providers are referring to is the amount of data transferred to and from the server for the given billing cycle.

Most providers will include a base amount of data transfers with the basic package and will be referred to by the number of gigabytes (GB) allowed. This can be as small as 2GB per month or as high as several hundred. The providers will also have a fee that will be charged to the customer for data transfers that exceed the amount of allotted bandwidth. Charges can range as low as pennies per GB to several dollars per GB. Be sure of what the rate is before signing any agreements.

Actual billing of the bandwidth charges can be calculated one of two ways by the collocation provider. The most common method is called 95th percentile while the other is the straight data transfer rates. Small servers with low bandwidth usage will typically use the straight data rates while larger servers tend to use the 95th percentile. Lets examine them in more detail.

Colocation America maintains one of the largest and most secure carrier-neutral data center in the industry, and can now offer you all the bandwidth you’ll ever need.

With 12 different carriers delivering 24Gbps of bandwidth into a fully meshed and redundant network datacenter, Colocation America is able to provide the bandwidth you require to manage your business, at a very competitive rate.

What is the 95th percentile, and why is it useful in measuring bandwidth?

The 95th percentile is the smallest number that is greater that 95% of the numbers in a given set. The reason this statistic is so useful in measuring data throughput is that is gives a very accurate picture of the cost of the bandwidth. Here’s an example. Suppose an ISP sells you a T1 line, but you’re only using it to access the web. Even though you might frequently download very large files (filling the pipe) your cost to the ISP is negligible, because your usage is intermittent. A single T3 connection to the backbone could easily support hundreds of such downstream customers, and never become saturated. As another example, suppose you are hosting a very busy web site that half-way fills your T1 for several hours every day. This type of bandwidth is more expensive, because your ISP can’t oversell their connection to the backbone as effectively. The important thing to realize is that it doesn’t cost your ISP anything to sell you a pipe of any particular size – it is the sustained rate of data transfer that costs them money. The sum of the 95th percentile usage of all of an ISP’s customers predicts the peak amount of backbone traffic that the ISP will incur (in a given direction).

Here are some examples, ISPs must charge for bandwidth by one of three means:

• 95th Percentile
  The 95th percentile calculation is a hard formula to try and explain. The easiest way to explain it is to give an example of how the calculation might be computed after a bit of explanation.In order to determine the amount of data transferred to a server, the provider will monitor the network port that a server is attached to. Every 3 to 5 minutes, they will get a reading for the data transfer rate recorded over that time period. These are then stored in a database. At the end of the billing cycle, the database is queried for the entry that is the 95th percentile in overall size. This number is ten put into the formula such as this: (95th Percentile rate) x (billing cycle length) = Bandwidth usage.

  Now, this in general will benefit most individuals since most network connections are idle for the majority of the time they are idle. However, if a site has a high sustained data transfer rate that is used for more than 5% of the time the link is up, it can be very expensive. Let’s look at two examples using a shorter time span of 1 day to make it simple.

• Example #1:
  Over a 30 day period, a Web server gets about 30GB of traffic. For 28 of these days, the traffic consists of only .5GB/day. The last two days has 8GB/day of traffic. In this case of bursting traffic, the 95th percentile would be around .5GB/day. Using the 95th percentile calculation, the bandwidth charge would be: (.5GB/day) * (30days) = 15GB
• Example #2:
  Over a 30 day period, a Web server gets about 30GB of total traffic. For 20 of these 30 days, there is only a small amount of traffic that doesn’t add up at a single GB. The remaining 10 days sees traffic of 3GB/day. The 95ht percentile in this case would be 3GB. Using the 95th percentile calculation, the bandwidth charge would be: (2GB/day) * (30days) = 90GBAs you can see, the consistent traffic with several days of busting traffic in the first example actually is more beneficial to the customer compared to the second example with its traffic that bursted for more than 5% of the time. Thankfully, the majority of servers on the Internet are going to be similar to example #1 and not example #2.

Information Collection and Use
Colocation America is the sole owner of the information collected on this site and other sites it owns and/or operates. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.

Information we collect from our customers may include: name, company, address, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, dates of service provided, types of service provided, payment history, manner of payment, amount of payments, date of payments, credit card or bank account information, names of services purchased, and domain names.

This information is used in course of providing service to our customers such as billing and provisioning of service.

Web Site Log Files
Colocation America uses log files to administer our site and servers, track access, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. no attempt is made to collect personally identifiable information. It is possible that personal information about a customer may be included in the log files due to the normal functions of IP addresses and Web browsing.

Information Sharing
Colocation America does not share your data with others except as necessary to process payments, provide services, or in response to court-issued subpoenas or search warrants. In the event of a subpoena or search warrant, Colocation America Inc. may voluntarily provide to all legal authorities any and all information requested with or without contacting you.

Some information may be available as a consequence of the specific services ordered. For example, domain name registration requires that customer information be made available through a central registry as well as a public WHOIS server. Other services may require sharing of data in order to provide the service.

External Links
This Web site contains links to other sites. Colocation America Inc. can not be responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. This privacy statement applies sole to information collected by websites owned by Colocation America. Colocation America Inc. is not responsible for content of such sites.

Security
Colocation America Inc. makes every precaution to protect our customers’ information. When you submit sensitive information via the Web site, your information is protected both online and offline.

When our registration forms ask you to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number), that information is protected, the information is only available to authorized employees.

In the event a customer forgets their password, they must provide personal information to authenticate themselves and obtain the password. Additionally, customers can access their own personal data by authenticating themselves. They may access their accounts to change their credit card numbers, but cannot obtain the old credit card information when doing so.

Announcements and Updates
We deliver several types of service announcement updates to our customers. Although most are voluntary, we may in some cases need to deliver an important service announcement to all customers without exemption.

Notification of Changes
Colocation America’s policies and procedures for handling customer information have been created with the understanding that Internet technologies are still evolving and that Internet business methods are continuing to evolve to meet the needs and opportunities of the changing technologies. As a result, these policies and procedures are subject to change.

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Formed by a group of leading, experienced senior Network Engineers in 2000, Colocation America has grown to become one of the most reliable collocation hosting providers nationally. Built from the ground up by professional engineers with a vision of delivering a fully integrated, trusted hosting service, Colocation America Corporation has earned a reputation with its attention to detail, highly qualified technicians and commitment to the latest data center technology.

As server hardware has evolved over the past decade, Colocation America has grown by focusing on service quality, investing in new hardware and maintaining the highest training standards by ensuring each company Engineer has over five years of experience and industry-leading certifications. Based upon these high standards, Colocation America maintains a state of the art datacenter in Los Angeles, California as well as a corporate office in Las Vegas, Nevada. Even as the company has grown, the senior Engineers at Colocation America have worked hard to maintain industry leading service quality standard, earning a reputation for reliability and professionalism.

Colocation America Data Centers: Better Service through Superior Technology

With an ongoing investment in providing reliable uptime and hardware support, Colocation America owns its own dedicated datacenter in the Los Angeles “One Wilshire” building. Centrally located in the heart of California’s technology corridor, the Datacenter features connectivity to nearly every major fiber optic provider along the Wilshire Corridor, giving Colocation America the ability to reliable scale to meet client data transmission needs.

The prime location of the datacenter provides direct connection to direct or managed connections through leading data backbone providers such as Savvis, Level 3, Above Net and Wiltel. Our direct relationship with these providers offers clients aggressive pricing and direct data connection access at faster rates. As a result, our investment in technology allows us to scale our servers to meet enterprise-level hosting needs as well as serving entrepreneurs, startups and small businesses which require a trusted hosting partner.

The company’s commitment to premium hardware and connectivity options is supplemented with is industry-leading managed services. With in-house network engineers who have expertise in solving hardware and software configuration issues, Colocation America offers dedicated support and services for small to medium sized businesses across a variety of service areas:

· Colocation server hosting

Host your own hardware with Colocation America for improved data transmission, lower latency, state of the art data center technology and access to professional network engineers.

· Dedicated server hosting

Improve the performance of data transmission with dedicated server hosting with faster data transfer rates, secure hardware firewalls and scale-able configurations to adapt to changing market conditions.

· Voice Over IP (VOIP) services

Get better quality voice transmission over your internet connection (IP) with affordable, optimized VOIP services from Colocation America.

· Bandwidth and IP services

Invest in reliable internet connection services to improve data transfer performance and lower costs with Colocation America. We work with leading IP backbone providers to improve data speeds and ensure maximum uptime.

· Managed Virtual Private Networks (VPN)

Host your virtual private network with the company to get access to industry leading engineers with expertise in security, hardware and network software configuration. We can help you optimize your local network while lowering internal IT costs.

Reliable Network Management Solutions

Modern small and mid-sized companies require a flexible, reliable network management solution to meet corporate communication needs. Colocation America offers fully branded, actively managed, low cost network solutions to help your company grow.

Combining Colocation America’s internal engineering expertise with client ownership, we can help companies with IP acquisition, equipment investment and bandwidth costs to respond to changing market conditions. With our combination of buying power, ability to scale data solutions and track record of success, Colocation America Managed Servers are a trusted choice from small to mid-sized businesses on a global scale.

The mission of Colocation America is to provide companies with a broad set of professional services and resources to improve network management efficiency. Our custom Managed Service offerings can improve IT performance and provides companies with flexibility to adapt and grow their networks.