Host your own hardware in Swiss colocation infrastructure

Server colocation lets a customer place privately owned servers, storage systems, firewalls, switches, and other compatible equipment inside a Swiss data center. The colocation service provides rack space, power, network connectivity, and facility infrastructure while the customer keeps ownership of the hardware.

Swiss colocation can be a good fit for businesses that want hardware ownership, long-term infrastructure control, Swiss network presence, and a professionally operated data center environment. The location may also matter for contracts, customer requirements, latency, operations, and data-handling strategy.

Hosting equipment in Switzerland does not by itself guarantee privacy, uptime, legal immunity, or application performance.

With colocation, the customer owns and supplies the physical hardware. With a dedicated server, the hosting provider owns the machine and rents it to the customer. Colocation offers more hardware control but also requires purchasing, shipping, maintaining, and eventually replacing the equipment.

Compare rented hardware on the Swiss dedicated servers page .

A Swiss VPS is a virtual machine running on provider-managed physical infrastructure. Colocation is for customer-owned physical hardware. VPS hosting is usually faster to deploy and easier to scale in small increments, while colocation provides direct control over the server platform and components.

Compare virtual infrastructure on the Swiss VPS page.

Choose 1U when the equipment fits one rack unit and the full load stays within the listed 250-watt power allocation. Choose 2U for a larger chassis, stronger power requirements, more monthly transfer, more network ports, or additional IPv4 addresses. Choose 4U for larger servers, storage-heavy systems, GPU hardware, or multi-component infrastructure that requires more physical space.

Rack units alone are not enough. Chassis depth, rail type, weight, airflow, cable clearance, connectors, and measured power draw must also be confirmed.

The current page lists 1U colocation starting at $175 per month, 2U colocation at $300 per month, and 4U colocation at $560 per month. These prices should be confirmed before ordering because installation, shipping, power overage, remote hands, custom networking, additional IP addresses, and optional services may be billed separately.

Provide the chassis manufacturer and model, rack-unit size, depth, width, weight, rail kit, power-supply type, connector type, maximum and typical power draw, network-port count, airflow direction, and a complete equipment inventory.

Large storage or GPU systems may require additional handling, airflow, power, weight, and rack-placement review.

The listed 1U plan includes up to 250 watts at 220V. The 2U and 4U plans list up to 1500 watts at 220V. The supplied plan information also references a 50 CHF power-overage rate per kWt, but the exact billing unit, measurement period, and overage calculation should be confirmed in writing.

Not necessarily. Dual power supplies provide useful redundancy only when they are connected to suitable independent power paths and the server is configured correctly. Customers should confirm feed design, connector availability, circuit capacity, and whether both power paths are included in the selected plan.

The 1U plan lists 20 TB of monthly transfer over a dedicated 1 Gb/s connection. The 2U plan lists 100 TB with two dedicated 1 Gb/s network connections. The 4U plan lists 100 TB with four dedicated 1 Gb/s network connections.

Confirm whether multiple links are independent, bonded, redundant, or separately routed. Unmetered and custom connectivity options may be available separately.

The listed plans include two IPv4 addresses with 1U, five with 2U, and twelve with 4U. Customers should also confirm subnet size, gateway details, usable-address count, routing method, reverse DNS, justification requirements, and pricing for additional IPv4 space.

The supplied colocation plan material clearly lists IPv4 allocations but does not specify an IPv6 allocation. IPv6 availability, prefix size, routing, and reverse DNS should therefore be confirmed before deployment.

Hardware should be approved before shipment. The deployment process normally includes equipment review, shipping and receiving coordination, mounting, power and network cabling, IP configuration, remote-management setup, connectivity testing, and final documentation.

Confirm packaging, labels, customs, insurance, delivery appointments, storage fees, installation labor, and return shipping before sending equipment.

Remote hands refers to approved physical tasks performed by on-site technicians, such as checking cables, rebooting equipment, reading indicator lights, replacing a customer- supplied drive, or assisting with installation. Scope, response time, labor rates, after-hours fees, and parts availability should be confirmed separately.

Yes, where possible. IPMI, iDRAC, iLO, serial console, or another secure management interface can allow remote power control, console access, recovery, and troubleshooting without relying on the installed operating system.

Not automatically. Colocation provides facility space, power, and connectivity, but it does not by itself include operating-system backups, application backups, data replication, monitoring, disaster recovery, or spare hardware. Those responsibilities should be planned separately.

Because the customer owns the equipment, the customer normally remains responsible for firmware, operating systems, drives, power supplies, fans, cables, spare parts, warranties, data, applications, monitoring, and hardware replacement unless a written service agreement says otherwise.

Colocation can fit bare metal servers, private cloud systems, storage platforms, hosting operations, streaming-origin infrastructure, business applications, network appliances, backup systems, and specialized hardware that the customer wants to own and control.

It can be, especially when the operator needs owned hardware, storage capacity, direct network design, and predictable infrastructure control. Actual suitability depends on transfer allowance, port capacity, routing, audience location, encoding, storage throughput, redundancy, and application architecture.

Customers who prefer rented hardware can also review streaming servers in Switzerland .

No absolute uptime or application-level failover should be assumed. Facility and network redundancy can reduce single points of failure, but customer equipment, power-supply design, network architecture, storage, software, monitoring, and recovery procedures also determine service continuity.

No. Owning hardware and using a Swiss data center may support greater infrastructure control, but privacy depends on system configuration, encryption, access controls, logging, software, administrators, contracts, service policies, and applicable law.

Related information is available in the Política de privacidad suiza.

Payment options should be confirmed in the current SwissHosting order or quotation process. The broader site references cards, digital wallets, bank transfers, and cryptocurrency, but availability may vary by service, billing review, country, contract, and invoice amount.