Server colocation in our own Riga data centre

40.00 EUR a month excluding VAT, whether the machine is a 1U rack server or a tower. Installation, one public IPv4 and the 1 Gbit/s uplink are inside that number: no setup fee, no minimum term. Electricity is the only part that moves, metered per rack and invoiced separately, so the bill is one predictable line plus the kilowatt-hours your hardware actually draws. Several units or unusual hardware are quoted rather than priced from this page, because at that point a single figure for the whole footprint is usually cheaper than stacking unit fees.

Every rack has its own meter. We read it once a month and invoice the consumption alongside the flat 40.00 EUR, so nothing is bundled, averaged or estimated, and efficient hardware shows up directly on your invoice. A server that idles most of the day genuinely costs less to run than one at constant load. If you want the number before you ship the machine, a plug-in power meter or the PSU reading in its management interface, multiplied by the hours in a month, gets you close enough to budget with.

Most customers do exactly that. Courier it to Berzaunes iela 1, Riga, with your company name on the package so the engineers can match it to your order, and it goes into the rack the day it lands, with power, uplink and your IPv4 connected. Two things make that day go smoothly: pack it for transport, ideally in the original box with the drives secured and the rails included, and send us the tracking number plus any remote management details in advance. Then we can confirm arrival and tell you the moment it is online rather than hunting for an unlabelled box.

The NOC watches the facility around the clock, so access is not limited to office hours; visits are agreed in advance and the usual badge and biometric checks apply at the door whatever the time. Racks are individually locked, so you reach your own equipment and nobody else's. In practice most people stop coming after the first year: for a reboot, a disk swap or recabling, asking the engineer who already stands next to the rack beats driving across town at midnight.

We run our own network under AS58269, so a BGP session is 50.00 EUR a month and announcing your PI prefix another 20.00 EUR, both listed with the add-ons above. The facility is carrier-neutral, so bringing your own carrier or ordering a cross-connect instead of our transit is equally normal here. No address block of your own? Extra IPv4 addresses and /29 or /28 subnets are add-ons as well. What we need before configuring anything is your AS number and the prefixes you intend to announce, so the paperwork can be checked and the session prepared on our side.

Space grows with the hardware: each additional 1U is 20.00 EUR a month on top of the base fee, so a 2U chassis bills as the base unit plus one extra. A tower that does not take rails gets its own shelf at 40.00 EUR a month. A switch or firewall standing next to the server is covered by the network equipment add-on, which is a separate 1U. Once you are past a few servers, ask for a quote instead: a single price for the whole footprint almost always beats the sum of the parts.

Ownership, and everything that follows from it. In colocation the machine is yours: 40.00 EUR a month buys rack space, a 1 Gbit/s uplink and a public IPv4 in Riga, and the configuration, the upgrade schedule and how long the server stays in service are all your decisions. Rent a dedicated server and we own the hardware, so there is no capital outlay, but you pay for the machine through the monthly fee for as long as you use it. The trade-off is failures: with your own hardware you supply the spare part, though our engineers will fit it as remote hands. If you already own a server that still has life in it, colocation is normally the cheaper road over that machine's remaining years.

Same day, in most cases. A machine that reaches Berzaunes iela 1 during working hours is racked, powered, wired to the 1 Gbit/s uplink and given its IPv4 before the day ends, because the building is ours and the engineers work a few metres from the rack, with no third party to schedule around. Order first so the unit and the address are reserved, and tell us roughly when the delivery is due. The real constraint is the courier: a package that turns up late in the evening gets racked the next morning.