From Rotterdam

Colocation in Amsterdam from Rotterdam

Rotterdam is 2 ms and about an hour from the Amsterdam halls. Close enough that Amsterdam is your local datacenter market, with more carriers and more exchange sites than the port region. Advisor, not reseller: you contract directly with the datacenter.

Distance and latency

Amsterdam from Rotterdam

Round-trip latency to Amsterdam: 2 ms. Close enough that synchronous replication between the two sites stays realistic.
Road distance: About 80 km to Amsterdam city centre, 60 km to Schiphol.
Drive time: About 70 minutes to the city centre outside rush hour, 50 minutes to Schiphol. The A4 and the A13 decide the rest.
Suitable as a DR site?: Yes, as a second building: another city, another substation, and 2 ms keeps synchronous replication on the table.

The honest comparison

Why not colocate in Rotterdam?

You can rack in Rotterdam. There are regional operators in and around the port, the power is fine and so is the building. What you buy with the extra 80 km is interconnection. AMS-IX and NL-ix both reach Rotterdam, but AMS-IX has two sites there and about a dozen around Amsterdam, and the Amsterdam halls give you a carrier list in the meet-me room instead of one carrier you drag in over metro fibre. If your workload only ever talks to machines in the port, that is not worth 80 km. If it talks to the internet, it usually is.

What Rotterdam gives you

Power, floor space and a short drive. For one rack that only serves local systems, that can be the right answer.

What you give up

Carrier density. Cross-connects to the carriers and networks you want inside the building, rather than a metro circuit to reach them in Amsterdam.

When we'd say stay

Tight ties to machinery in the port, a team that touches the hardware weekly, or one rack that never grows. We say that instead of selling you a move.

Who it's for

Who does this from Rotterdam

Port or logistics firm with a server room

Terminal, EDI and planning systems in a converted office room. Insurance or the power bill has made it a board topic. You want plain numbers: a rack in Amsterdam against what the room costs you now.

Colocation in Amsterdam

Hoster or MSP outgrowing a regional DC

You want AMS-IX and NL-ix in the building, room to go from 3 to 20 kW a rack, and a price that reflects the commit. Rotterdam gets you power; Amsterdam gets you peers.

AMS-IX colocation and cross-connects

Rotterdam primary, Amsterdam second site

Leave production where it is and put the replica 80 km north. Another city, another grid feed, 2 ms round-trip. We size rack, power and cross-connects for the failover, not for the quiet day.

Disaster recovery in Amsterdam

How it works

How it works from here

01
Tell us what you needMail the specs from your desk in Rotterdam. Five minutes, no visit needed.
02
We engineer and negotiateWe size racks, kW and campus and negotiate the terms. Sometimes the answer is fewer racks.
03
We fast-track the introductionThe right account manager gets a filled-in brief. You get a real quote, not a brochure range.
04
You contract with the datacenterContract, invoice and SLA are with the datacenter. We stay on as technical contact.

We walk the hall with you in Amsterdam, or do it on a call if you would rather not drive. Most people from Rotterdam make the trip twice: once for the walk-through, once on move-in day.

Read the full process

Questions from Rotterdam

Remote hands, latency and staying put.

Do I have to drive to Amsterdam for remote hands?

No. Remote hands is staffed in the building around the clock and you order it in the operator portal. The drive is for the walk-through and for move-in day.

How fast is Amsterdam from Rotterdam?

About 2 ms round-trip over normal carrier fibre. The figure is indicative and worth checking with your own carrier; at that distance synchronous replication between the two sites is realistic.

Can I keep my current carrier?

Yes, if they are in the building or can reach it. Cross-connects, IX ports and dark fibre to Nikhef are ordered inside the building; your carriers and your IP space stay yours.

Would you ever tell me to stay in Rotterdam?

Yes. If the workload is tied to machines in the port, or the rack will never grow, we say so. The datacenter pays us a fee, but a move that does not fit costs everyone time.