Why ColoServe?
- Former MCI data center in exclusive Telecom Building
- 24/7 On-Site Engineers and NOC
- Great location close San Francisco’s Financial District
- Multi-homed, Tier 1 Bandwidth Ready to Go
- Managed Services
- New Cat 6 Cable Plant for 10Gbps Capability
- Free Remote Power Cycling
- Private Customer Portal
- Full 100Mbps Connection
- Stable, Debt-free Company
- Flexible Options
- Affordable Pricing
- Guaranteed Performance
- Locally owned/operated
Former MCI data center in exclusive Telecom Building
ColoServe offers a wide range of colocation options in our new Spear Street data center. This 20,000 sq. ft. facility was built as expansion space for MCI in 2000 but never used. Today all our power, generator and cooling systems are provided by MCI, which occupies the 3 floors above our data center for phone switches that provide essential local and 911 phone service. These infrastructure systems are therefore built to the highest standards, including dual redundant diesel generators on site with dual 10,000 gallon diesel fuel tanks, and are tested monthly according to MCI’s stringent regulations.
The building itself sits directly on a large outcropping of solid bedrock that also supports a tower of the Bay Bridge just 1 block away. It was originally used by the Army to store tanks, and has been seismically retrofitted to exceed stringent San Francisco building codes, with further retrofitting by MCI prior to occupancy. MCI, AT&T, and ColoServe are the only building tenants, and Both MCI and AT&T provide all their local phone services to the city of San Francisco from the building, making it an essential facility built to the highest telcom standards.
24/7 On-Site Engineers and NOC
ColoServe has true System Administrators on site 24/7, not just security guards like in many data center facilities. Because we are a division of ServePath, a dedicated server hosting company with over 2000 business customers worldwide, we must have technical staff on site at all times to maintain our network and dedicated servers. Midnight in San Francisco is 8AM in London, which means that true remote-hands help is always available for Linux, FreeBSD, or Windows.
We have a large on-site NOC that is always staffed where our network connections, power systems, customer equipment, security scans, and more is constantly monitored.
Great location close to San Francisco’s Financial District
ColoServe’s San Francisco data center at 360 Spear Street is just 3 blocks south of downtown and can be accessed conveniently from anywhere in the Bay Area. We are less than 2 blocks from the Bay Bridge, Embarcadero, and the Transbay Bus Terminal, with easy access to all freeways, BART and buses.
Multi-homed, Tier 1 Bandwidth Ready to Go
ColoServe provides ready-to-go, Multi-homed Tier 1 Bandwidth (MCI, Level 3, NTT/Verio, AboveNet and peering at PAIX) in a single connection. Unlike many data center facilities where you have to arrange for your own bandwidth at significant cost and choose from one or two providers, we operate our own screaming-fast networkTM that is available as an option to all our colocation customers. Because our parent company ServePath has thousands of dedicated servers under management using the same connectivity, we are able to offer this high quality bandwidth at very attractive pricing.
Carrier Neutral space is also available if you wish to bring in your own network connectivity. Our data center has 7 fiber providers already installed, including 3 metro Ethernet providers, and our building is located in one of the most wired blocks in San Francisco, with a large portion of the Bay Bridge Fiber Consortium (trans-bay fiber) terminating directly in our building.
As a division of ServePath, San Francisco's largest and fastest growing web hosting company, ColoServe has a large on-site technical staff and has developed a range of managed services that you will not find in many data centers. Optional services include Network Storage, Managed Firewalls, Managed Load Balancing, Security Audits, Managed MailFilter Spam/Virus blocking, and professional services for custom application management and system administration.
New Cat 6 Cable Plant for 10Gbps Capability
ColoServe has upgraded our data center cabling from Cat 5e to Cat 6. This gives us the ability to handle 10Gbps ethernet links that will be standard in the near future, and optimizes performance for current Gigabit ethernet connections that are becoming popular with higher bandwidth applications.
The general difference between category 5e and category 6 cabling is in the transmission performance, and extension of the available bandwidth from 100 MHz for category 5e to 200 MHz for category 6. These improvements provide a higher signal-to-noise ratio, allowing higher reliability for current applications and higher data rates for future applications.
All ColoServe customers get the use of remote power cycling equipment at no additional cost! If your server locks up and requires a reboot, why wait for a technician to do a manual reboot while your business is losing money? With the remote power cycling you can log in to our secure, password protected customer portal and instantly reboot your own servers. Learn More
All ColoServe customers have access to our private customer portal, My.ColoServe.com. From a secure login you have access to reboot your servers with the remote power cycling, view your bandwidth and data transfer statistics in real time, order and configure managed services, run free security scans of your IP addresses, view and print your invoices, open, view and update technical support tickets, and update your account information.
Some Internet service providers limit your bandwidth and throughput. At ColoServe, you always get a full 100Mbps burstable fast Ethernet connection to the Internet for maximum performance (some special unmetered connections will be capped). You may not always need it, but it is nice to know it is there to handle any sudden spikes in your traffic.
ColoServe is a division of ServePath, a self-funded, 100% employee-owned California corporation with no debt or equipment leases. Unlike so many large ISPs and telecommunications companies that overextended themselves during the last boom, no outside investors or venture capitalists can call in a loan or affect the services we provide to our customers. ColoServe is a financially stable company that is showing a fair profit.
No other colocation facility can give you the range of options and flexibility that ColoServe delivers. With pricing from single 1u servers to cabinets to build-to-suit cages, we can accommodate any colocation need. And our parent company ServePath allows us to offer a range of additional services, from network storage to firewalls, to outsourced dedicated server hosting if you need to build your server base quickly or want to add additional horsepower without the up-front hardware cost.
ColoServe offers full-featured colocation packages with lots of bandwidth and service options, all priced aggressively to work for your business. We challenge you to find better pricing for comparable Tier 1 data center space and network connectivity anywhere.
ColoServe offers a 99.9% uptime guarantee. If you are not satisfied with any aspect of our service we will work to make it right.
Our team built one of California's largest ISPs back in the 1990s, attaining profitability and serving many hundreds of thousands of satisfied customers.
We started back in 1995, in the infancy of the commercial Internet, so we understand what it takes to provide high-quality Internet services. Today, we specialize in colocation and dedicated servers in order to deliver the powerful Internet infrastructure and business-class services our customers expect.