Building a server room on your own premises is feasible, often cheaper than expected to bu…
Your table compares what your server room costs with what a hosting provider would charge.…
It depends on what has been tested, and you can check that yourself on your visit. Six que…
A virtualisation platform is not designed by picking servers: it is designed by answering …
The module is in your hand, the port stays dark, and the optics have nothing to do with it…
A data center is not judged on a site visit or a brochure. The building almost always hold…
An optical module does not carry kilometres, it carries decibels. The whole question of a …
Nobody rents a rack on day one, and nobody should wait for the first serious outage to thi…
On the quote, a rack is 42U. In the room, once the cabling is in, 32 to 36 are often left …
A 100 Gbit/s network card has become affordable. The switch that goes with it, far less so…
An infrastructure order commits you for years, and the most expensive problems are the one…
For a GPU server, the question is almost never space: a few rack units are enough. The que…
A virtualization cluster is not sized by adding up servers: it is sized by rules. How many…
The decision to leave VMware is usually made before opening this guide. Here we cover the …
Your quote shows one line and one bit rate. In reality your traffic crosses four segments …
Three acronyms appear in every hosting and connectivity contract, and almost nobody knows …
Many companies look for a data centre “close to the Paris Bourse”, thinking about latency.…
The question is wrongly framed nine times out of ten. MPLS and SD-WAN are not two competin…
Directive (EU) 2022/2555, known as NIS2, is not aimed only at large infrastructure. It req…
A data center is chosen on cabinet price, power and connectivity. You then live there than…
An optical link that will not come up is almost always fixed by three checks: the right mo…
A telephone line delivered over IP takes one word on a quote and two very different protoc…
Power is the leading cause of hosting outages. Understanding the chain that runs from the …
Broadcom's acquisition of VMware changed the rules: a forced move to subscription bundles,…
Cabling is the plumbing of the data center: invisible when done well, a source of outages …
Data center "compliance" pages line up logos. A serious certification is anything but a lo…
AI and GPU workloads are fundamentally redefining datacenter requirements. Where a classic…
Choosing a datacenter requires evaluating variables that extend far beyond baseline pricin…
Three colocation quotes, three layouts, three scopes: impossible to set side by side as th…
A headline price reveals very little. A rack at a monthly rate, a cloud instance at an hou…
The edge principle fits in one sentence: bring compute and data closer to those who use th…
France is drawing a wave of data-center projects dedicated to artificial intelligence, som…
Between managing your own hardware and handing everything to the cloud, there is a middle …
Before comparing offers, you need to know what you actually need. Serious sizing happens i…
A leased fibre pair between two sites looks narrow: two strands, one service. Wavelength d…
Peering means exchanging traffic directly between two networks instead of paying a carrier…
Almost every IT buyer knows the pattern: an attractive teaser rate in year one, then a bil…
Dark fibre gives you a dedicated optical pair that you light yourself, with no bandwidth c…
For its network access, a company has two choices: pro FTTH, shared and without a strong g…
Germany combines the European GDPR, a demanding national law and one of Europe's strongest…
The sovereignty of your data depends on the provider's jurisdiction, not only on where the…
Morocco frames personal data through law 09-08 and is seeing its data-center market grow, …
The Netherlands pairs the GDPR framework with one of Europe's biggest network crossroads, …
Senegal was one of the first West African countries to adopt a data-protection law, and is…
Switzerland is not in the European Union, but its data-protection law, revised in 2023, is…
Since Brexit, the UK has its own GDPR, judged adequate by the EU. But its surveillance reg…
Hosting in the United States, or with a US provider, places your data under US law whereve…
Hosting your data in Europe has become a regulatory and strategic must, no longer just a p…
You have bought your servers, or you already own them, and the question becomes: where do …
Once your servers are racked, they still need to reach the world: carriers, internet excha…
Changing data centers is scary for one reason: the outage. Yet it is avoidable. A successf…
Bringing your own IP addresses into a data center means becoming independent of your host …
A fire, a major power cut, a human error: the question is how long you can stay down, and …
Connecting a data center to the internet means choosing between buying connectivity (trans…
To stop depending on your carrier, you need your own IP addresses, your own network number…
Asking "how much does a rack cost?" is like asking "how much does a car cost?": it depends…
In hosting, two worlds coexist: players who publish their prices, and those who answer "on…
Two data centers with the same rent can cost you very differently, for a reason invisible …
Cooling decides two things that matter to your bill: how much electricity the data center …
Your servers are remote, but failures stay physical: a cable to reseat, a disk to replace,…
Many racks are paid in full and used by half. Peer-to-peer subletting answers that waste: …
Asking "what does this hosting cost?" without stating the horizon is an incomplete questio…
The colocation market is living through an unusual period: demand is exploding under the e…
Connectivity determines resilience and a large share of the final cost of your hosting, ye…
Virtualization lets you run several servers on a single physical machine. It is the techni…