Private Data Center

Name: Private Data Center
Brand: Servers.com by Nexcess
Rating: 5 (2343 reviews)

Who is a private data center for?

A private data center is for businesses that have run into the limits of shared infrastructure and need control, isolation, and room to change. They want the simplicity of a cloud for their servers, with the ability to make the environment their own - isolated, in their control and still hosted and maintained by us.

Hybrid and multi-cloud platforms

The Servers.com by Nexcess private data center runs sensitive or performance-critical systems needing full isolation or the agility to specify network topology, bring in bespoke hardware or control over maintenance windows.
Legacy systems

Applications that were never built for the cloud get data center isolation, power, and network without being rewritten.
Mergers and acquisitions

A combined business that has outgrown its footprint gets one segment sized for the new organization.

Everything inside the private data center perimeter is yours

Complete isolation

Racks, servers, and switches are physically and logically separated from other customers, with no shared hardware.

Operational control

You have root access to every server and own the operating system, hypervisor, software, and security configuration, while our engineers run the switches and physical infrastructure.

Location of your choice

We deploy the region in one of our data centers or in a new location, which saves the years and capital it takes to build a data center.

Tailored hardware

Solution architects help configure bare metal or graphics processing unit (GPU) servers, you choose any operating system or bring your own image, and you can bring non-standard hardware.

Network designed with you

Carriers, direct connections, bandwidth, and topology are decisions you make with our architects, set for the whole pod or rack by rack.

Power to your density

Specify power and cooling density to match the workload, for the whole installation or per rack.

The benefits of hosted pricing with the privacy of your own data center

Cost

Unpredictable bills at high throughput give way to isolated bare metal at a fixed monthly cost.

Performance

The environment is engineered for your workloads, down to the server builds and the network paths.

Control

Control over hardware lifecycle, network topology components, and security, plus a say in where data and compute sit.

What we need to know to quote a private data center

We tailor and price every Private Data Center from the information you provide.

Location

A country, region, city, or exact facility. A new location typically takes a few months, and our existing data centers are faster.
Servers

The count and configuration, sized to your workload. We’ll suggest the ideal rack size.
Additional hardware

Standard catalog, non-standard builds, or hardware you supply.
Network

Expected traffic per installation or rack, the number of uplinks, and any other parameters.
Power

Electrical requirements for the whole installation or per rack.
Scale

How you expect the infrastructure to grow over the commitment period.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Private data centers include our hosted Enterprise Bare Metal (EBM), Scalable Bare Metal (SBM), or GPU bare metal, and start at four racks. Below that, Private Racks are the better fit.

A Servers.com private data center compared with other ways to get isolation

Compare our private data center solution with other ways to get isolation

Criteria	Servers.com Private Data Center	Build your own data center	Colocation	Hyperscalers
Ownership	Servers.com owned and operated	Owned and operated by you	A third-party facility	The cloud provider
Customization	Hardware, network topology, and power per rack	Complete	Complete, managed by you	Limited to standard configurations
Operational control	We run the data center, you run the environment	You run everything	You run space, power, cooling, and network	Restricted by the provider
Security	Full physical and logical isolation	Full physical and logical isolation	Shared, with the provider securing the building	Shared, with the provider securing the physical stack
Speed to start	Moderate	Months or years	Moderate	Instant
Upfront spending	High	Very high	High	None
Ongoing costs	Moderate and predictable	High	Moderate and predictable	Variable, with egress and overage charges
Best for	Isolation and agility without building from scratch	Very large organizations with strict requirements	Businesses that want to own every physical detail	Rapidly changing workloads

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Private Racks compared with a Private Data Center

Private Racks compared with private data center both remove shared tenancy, and they differ in scale and in how much of the surrounding environment is dedicated to you.

Private Racks

Scope: 1-4 racks
Power & connectivity: Shared with the facility
Network layout: Standard
Best for: A first step into isolation, or isolation for a few racks

Scope: Four to 60+ racks
Power & connectivity: Fully dedicated
Network layout: Custom
Best for: Isolation, agility, and footprint at scale

Setting up a private data center

Setting up a private data center is a scoped project with named owners on both sides.

Step 1

Scope the project

Your account team and a solution architect work through the specification, from location to power.
Step 2

Design and build

Our engineers design the topology and hardware with you, then build and test the environment.
Step 3

Move workloads in

New projects start in the data center first, and existing workloads follow when they need the isolation.

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Why platforms run a Private Data Center on Servers.com

… because the infrastructure, the network, and the people come from one provider that designs around the workload.

Single-tenant by design

Every server we rent belongs to one customer, and no proprietary service sits between your software and the hardware, so moving away never means rewriting your platform.

32 data centers

Locations across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, joined by a private network with free transfer between sites.

Cloud-style operations

The Customer Portal, a public application programming interface (API), a command-line tool, and Terraform work across the catalog, with the same hardware profiles in every region.

The same people after you sign

The engineers and account managers who help design your environment are the ones who help you migrate it and run it.

Support from engineers who know your environment

Support from engineers who know your environment is part of every product we sell, and it doesn't depend on how much you spend with us.

Engineers first

Engineers answer your message, 24 hours a day and every day of the year, with no escalation step.
A named account team

Your account managers stay with you for the life of the relationship, from the first call onward.
Solution architects

Architects take part in design, migration, and later changes, so decisions get made with the workload in view.
Your messaging platform

We work in your Slack, Discord, Teams, Telegram, or WhatsApp instead of asking you to learn a ticket system.

FAQs

What is a Servers.com by Nexcess Private Data Center?

A dedicated physical pod inside one of our data centers, or a location you choose, where everything inside the perimeter, from four racks to dozens, is for your use only.

Is this the same as colocation?

No. Colocation means you bring your own servers and rent space, power, and connectivity. Our solution combines the power of isolation and hardware agility with cloud-like pricing and convenience and the performance of dedicated, hosted bare metal.

What is isolated?

Every piece of infrastructure inside the perimeter, including racks, servers, network switches, and power distribution. Isolation can extend to electricity, network carrier, cooling, and physical location.

Where can a private data center be located?

Almost anywhere in principle. A new location typically takes longer and costs more, and your account team scopes it with you.

Does this replace my current hosting with you?

No. A Private data center is an additional service for projects that need more isolation or flexibility, and deployments you're happy with can stay where they are.

How does a Private data center support regulatory compliance?

It gives you physical and network isolation, root access to demonstrate how the environment runs, control over where data and compute sit, and room for workloads that can't meet requirements in a cloud. That supports audits against Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), System and Organization Controls 2 (SOC 2), the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), and the certification stays yours.

Private data center

The private data center extends our bare metal hosting.

Who is a private data center for?

Hybrid and multi-cloud platforms

Legacy systems

Mergers and acquisitions