Somewhere better
than the cupboard.

Colocation and hosting in New Zealand data centres, with the power, cooling, connectivity, and physical security that a server room in your office cannot provide. It is for organisations with workloads that cannot move to public cloud, or should not.

Sometimes, and we will say so. Public cloud suits workloads that vary, that benefit from managed services, or that you would rather not own hardware for. Colocation suits steady, predictable workloads where the monthly cloud bill would exceed the cost of owning the equipment, and workloads with licensing, latency, or residency constraints that make cloud awkward. Most organisations end up with both, and the useful exercise is modelling the running cost of each before deciding.

With colocation you own the hardware and rent the space, power, cooling, and connectivity around it. With hosting you rent the compute and someone else owns the hardware. Colocation gives you more control and a known capital cost. Hosting removes the hardware refresh and the capital outlay. Which is right depends mostly on whether you already own equipment worth moving.

Four things, usually. Cooling that stops when the building air conditioning goes off for the weekend. Power with no real protection beyond a small battery. Physical access by anyone who can open a door. And connectivity built for people browsing the internet rather than for a server serving them. Any one of these is survivable. They tend to fail together on a Friday night.

Planning takes longer than the move. The physical relocation of a small environment is usually a single out-of-hours window, and virtual migrations can often be done with almost no interruption at all. We set out the window, the rollback point, and who to call before anything is unplugged.

We place workloads in New Zealand facilities and can tell you exactly which one your equipment sits in, along with its certifications. If data residency is a contractual obligation for you rather than a preference, look at sovereign cloud alongside this, because the evidence requirements are stricter than most tenders assume.

We quote after scoping rather than before. Anyone pricing this work without looking at your environment is guessing, and the guess is rarely in your favour. Scoping itself is quick, and we tell you what it costs before we start it.

A first conversation takes about half an hour and costs nothing. Scoping is usually a week or two of our time depending on the size of the environment, and we agree the delivery dates with you before anything is booked in.

Yes, and it is common. We are happy to work as an extra pair of hands under your internal team, or alongside an incumbent provider on a defined piece of work. We will set out in writing where the responsibilities split, so nothing falls between us.

No. This can be delivered as a standalone piece of work for an organisation we have never worked with before, or folded into a managed agreement if you already have one with us. Plenty of clients use us for one thing and keep everything else where it is.

Our team is based in Auckland and we attend sites across the wider region. Most of this work is delivered remotely, so we support organisations throughout New Zealand, and we will say up front where being on site genuinely matters.

Named people, not a queue. You get a lead who knows your environment and stays with it, which is the difference between explaining your business once and explaining it every time you make contact.

You keep the documentation regardless, and anything registered in your name stays in your name. Whether we stay involved is your call. Some clients take it in house from there, others move it onto an ongoing agreement with us. We would rather you left cleanly than stayed because leaving was difficult.