From Utrecht

Colocation in Amsterdam from Utrecht

Utrecht is forty-five kilometres from the Amsterdam halls, which makes Amsterdam your local datacenter market whether you planned it that way or not. Under an hour by road outside rush hour, to halls where AMS-IX and NL-ix are reachable from the building. Advisor, not reseller: you contract directly with the datacenter.

Distance and latency

Amsterdam from Utrecht

Round-trip latency to Amsterdam: 1–2 ms. Indicative: at this distance the fibre path matters more than the kilometres.
Road distance: About 45 km to Amsterdam city centre, 50 km to Schiphol.
Drive time: About 50 minutes to either, outside rush hour. The A2 at rush hour is the only real variable.
Suitable as a DR site?: As a second building, yes. Against a regional event, 45 km is thin, and we say so rather than sell you the rack.

The honest comparison

Why not colocate in Utrecht?

Utrecht and the ring around it have datacenters, and for a single rack on a business park they work. The catch is that they sit forty-five kilometres from one of the most connected metros in the world. You pay regional prices for regional connectivity while AMS-IX and the carriers you want are half an hour up the A2. For most workloads that is the wrong trade, and you notice it the first time you need a second carrier or a 20 kW rack.

What Utrecht gives you

A shorter drive and, sometimes, a cheaper rack. If your team is in the room every week, that counts.

What you give up

Carriers, AMS-IX and headroom. A business-park hall usually has a lower power ceiling and a shorter carrier list than the Amsterdam campuses.

When we'd say stay

One rack, low power, no growth plan and an office five minutes away. We would rather tell you that than move you.

Who it's for

Who does this from Utrecht

SaaS company with a rack in the comms room

The office move or the landlord ended the arrangement. You want to know what colocation is, what it costs per month, and what the migration weekend looks like.

Colocation in Amsterdam

IT services firm consolidating client racks

Ten clients, ten half racks, one contract. You want dedicated racks with your own keys, cross-connects to the carriers your clients use, and a price that moves with the commit.

Dedicated rack colocation

Utrecht office with a compliance deadline

The auditor asked where the servers are and who can reach them. A certified hall with badge access, logged entry and a real SLA answers the physical-security part of the questionnaire.

Colocation in Amsterdam

How it works

How it works from here

01
Tell us what you needSend the specs from Utrecht. Five minutes, no visit needed.
02
We engineer and negotiateWe size racks, kW and campus and negotiate. From Utrecht, Zuidoost is usually the shortest drive.
03
We fast-track the introductionThe right account manager gets a filled-in brief. You get a real quote.
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, which from Utrecht is a morning rather than a day, or do it on a call if that suits you better.

Read the full process

Questions from Utrecht

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 ordered in the portal. From Utrecht the drive is short enough that plenty of teams still do their own upgrades, which is the nice part.

How fast is Amsterdam from Utrecht?

One to two milliseconds round-trip. That is our estimate rather than a measured figure, because Utrecht is not on our latency map, so check it with your carrier before you design around it.

Is 45 km far enough for disaster recovery?

For building and power failure, yes. For a regional event, no. If your risk register asks for real geographic separation, you want a second metro, and we will say which one.

Can I keep the servers I have?

Usually. We size the rack and the kW on the gear you run, not on a brochure number. If half of it should be retired instead of moved, we say that too.