Centarra - Premium Dallas Colo from $50 a Month [Native DDoS Protection] [A+B Power]

[kaniini]

Centarra's Dallas datacenter is located centrally in the US in Dallas, Texas. Our central location is perfect for near any application or use. Centarra is focused on providing powerful, premium products. To celebrate the 2,000 sq. foot expansion of our Dallas facilities and our rapid growth, below are a few limited time specials. Centarra's future plans include multiple locations both inside and outside of the US.

To order services, please go to our billing panel and create an account. Once your account is created, you'll be able to easily add colocation services as needed.

1U Centarra Dallas Special

1U rack space

1 Gbps network drop

10 TB of Bandwidth

1 amp @ 110 volts A+B Redundant power feeds provided via ATS

/28 IPv4 with justification, /64 IPv6

$99 a month $50 a month with a $50 setup fee

1U High Bandwidth Centarra Dallas Special

1U rack space

1,000 Mbps of unmetered BGP blended bandwidth via 1 Gbps network drop

1 amp @ 110 volts A+B Redundant power feeds provided via ATS

/24 IPv4 with justification, /64 IPv6

$699 a month $199 a month with a $50 setup fee

1U Centarra Dallas Special

1U rack space

1 Gbps network drop

20 TB of Bandwidth

1 amp @ 110 volts A+B Redundant power feeds provided via ATS

/24 IPv4 with justification, /64 IPv6

$199 a month $99 a month with a $50 setup fee

2U Centarra Dallas Special

2U rack space

Single server

1 Gbps network drop

40 TB of Bandwidth

2 amps @ 110 volts A+B Redundant power feeds provided via ATS

/24 IPv4 with justification, /64 IPv6

$299 a month $189 a month with a $50 setup fee

Full Cabinet Centarra Dallas Special

42U locking APC extra depth cabinet (with 4 x PDU mounts in the back)

1,000 Mbps of unmetered BGP blended bandwidth via 1 Gbps network drop

20 amps @ 208 volts A+B Redundant power feeds, UPS & generated backed feeds

/23 IPv4 with justification, /48 IPv6

24/7/365 unescorted access via biometric pass is available

$2,500 a month $1,500 a month with no setup fee

*Add-ons

Need something not standard? Here are our add-ons.

/24 IPv4 - $100 a month

10 Gbps network drop - $199 a month + $150 setup fee

2 x 10 Gbps network drops (active/passive) - $299 a month + $300 setup fee

12 month LTO Brocade VDX 6710-54 (6 x 10Gbit + 48 x 1G 1U layer 3 switch) - $400/month + $100 setup

Don't see an add-on? Need something more customized? Do you want to order, just e-mail us at [email protected]. Alternatively, you can e-mail me directly at mailto:{option}[email protected].

mailto:{option}What is mailto:{option}hybridizationmailto:{option}?

mailto:{option}Hybridization is the perfect service for enterprise customers. Leverage colocation and Centarra's premium cloud services for spikes in usage, easy high availability storage, and more. You can seamlessly integrate your current platform with our easy and powerful REST API. Deploy additional capacity on-demand! For more information, please contact us.

mailto:{option}The Centarra standard comes withmailto:{option}:

mailto:{option}Redundant Power and Network

mailto:{option}Our colocation plans come with redundant power, provided via automated transfer switching (ATS). This means that you only need one power cord and PSU to take advantage of our redundant power. Additionally, redundant network drops can be provided for an additional fee.

mailto:{option}Free Rack and Stack

mailto:{option}All of our colocation packages come with free racking. Don't worry about paying hundreds of dollars to have your servers racked, cabled, and labeled. That's part of the Centarra standard.

mailto:{option}Native DDoS Protection - 100 Gbps of pure protection

mailto:{option}With the global increase in both quantity and size of DDoS attacks, Centarra set out to solve the problem. We developed our own in-house DDoS detection, filtering, and protection system. Our next-generation system was designed to provide some of the most comprehensive, advanced, and powerful filtering around. We left no stone unturned. From top to bottom, our network has your back in providing the ultimate in uptime and reliability.

mailto:{option}Free Basic Remote Hands

mailto:{option}Every Centarra colocated servers comes with free hot swapping, manual reboots, and putting one of our KVMs on your server. Don't worry about paying lots of money for a simple task!

mailto:{option}IP Addresses

mailto:{option}All IP allocations listed are provided free-of-charge with proper justification. Additional IP space can be purchased for $0.50 per each IP. Additionally, IPv6 addresses can be provided free of charge to all clients.

mailto:{option}Centarra Control and API

mailto:{option}Our advanced API and control panel allows you to easily: place or remove null routes, modify firewall policies, modify rDNS, request a KVM, and monitor bandwidth usage in real time. We are constantly adding additional features and improving our API!

mailto:{option}Information

mailto:{option}Datacenter Address

mailto:{option}2323 Bryan Street, Suite 400

mailto:{option}Dallas, Texas 75201

mailto:{option}On-site Security

mailto:{option}Biometric passes are used inside the building, loading dock, and freight elevator.

mailto:{option}Cross-connects

mailto:{option}Cross connects can be arranged to any carrier inside 1950 N. Stemmons as well as 2323 Bryan Street.

mailto:{option}Centarra operates a dark fiber ring between several locations in the Dallas metro area, 2323 Bryan and 1950 Stemmons included. We can provide connections to almost any major facility in the area.

mailto:{option}Summarized AUP

mailto:{option}Adult content is allowed

mailto:{option}IRC is allowed

mailto:{option}Mass-mailing of any kind without our express consent is not allowed

mailto:{option}Illegal activity is not allowed

mailto:{option}All quotes in this thread are valid for 7 days.

 

[Mun]

What would it cost to get a 100mbps connect instead of the gig @10tb? Also how much to add 10tb?

 

[texteditor]

What if the DDoS comes from INSIDE the network, from another client?

Not unlikely since Robert Clarke is there....

 

[trewq]

Seeing as you only peer with abovenet how big is your connection to them? Do you plan on adding more peers in the future?

 

[ChrisK]

What would it cost to get a 100mbps connect instead of the gig @10tb? Also how much to add 10tb?

We don't offer less than 1Gig unfortunately. Any additional traffic is $5/TB, however we have the $199/mo special for unmetered 1Gbps.

 

[kaniini]

What if the DDoS comes from INSIDE the network, from another client?

Not unlikely since Robert Clarke is there....

Then you, as a customer, would raise this with us and we would handle this through our standard processes for handling network abuse (i.e. investigate and block the traffic, and possibly terminate the customer depending on the nature of the abuse).

Seeing as you only peer with abovenet how big is your connection to them? Do you plan on adding more peers in the future?

We are planning to add TeliaSonera in the next 30-60 days, there are a few things left to negotiate in the contract before an LOA can be issued and the cable run can be executed over at Equinix.

All of our out-of-network transit is at least 100gbps, typically configured in multiple 50G LAGs to two independent edge devices which feed the traffic into the mitigation layer.  We require that this be 100gbps lossless, since we require lossless capacity in order to cleanly mitigate inbound attacks... which makes onboarding carriers difficult.  A major reason why this is difficult is because some carriers (Atrato) have sales teams which promise SLAs they cannot deliver on, so we are having to evaluate carefully which carriers are able to meet the prescribed SLAs, and then negotiate the desired pricing and SLAs into the contract.

We were planning to use Atrato, but it is fairly obvious they would not be able to fulfill the SLAs we require, since we are of course building a network designed for tanking DDoS attacks.  The other carriers we have looked at so far have expressed that they would not be able to provide the desired SLAs in the Dallas market.

I suppose we will peer with the other interesting carriers in the markets where they can deliver the desired SLAs, and then provide connectivity to those providers on our PoP to PoP backhaul wavelengths that we plan to deploy when we integrate the other PoPs into the network... much like others are doing to get the capacity SLAs they require.

 

[ChrisK]

Removed.

 

[Nett]

The IP allocation for whole cab looks nice.

 

[kaniini]

The IP allocation for whole cab looks nice.

Yes, we see a lot of colocation offers where you get a whole cab, and like a /27 or /28.  We found this to be strange, as at least, in my view, the ideal purpose for a full cab these days would be to run a virtualization cluster or something similar.

So, instead of it being a hidden fee for the expanded space, we decided to just include it in the package.  You have to provide us with IP justification data to satisfy ARIN's reporting requirements, but other than that, we really will give you a /23 block with the cabinet if you can justify it.

 

[Mun]

What type of peering do you have? I guess I should add, what are easy hops after abovenet?

 

[kaniini]

What type of peering do you have? I guess I should add, what are easy hops after abovenet?

Abovenet is 1 AS hop away from most of the key eyeball networks in Dallas for the region... Cox, Suddenlink, AT&T and Verizon all peer with them.  nLayer/GTT has peering with them through TINET.

If you want to take a look, we operate a looking glass on a VM at http://dal.speedtest.tortois.es/ and if you want, we can set up a route-views server if you want to take a closer look at our BGP table.

 

[blergh]

Any plans for expansions to say.. Scandinavia?

 

[kaniini]

We are more interested in APAC.  We will probably do EU after the world has transitioned more to IPv6.

 

[NodeBytes]

I'd be interested in seeing the route-views server for your bgp table. Been looking for a good Dallas provider.

 

[ComputerTrophy]

What is ChrisK's affiliation with Centarra? I found out that he ran Avante Hosting and he is affiliated with Centarra.

 

[sv01]

We are more interested in APAC.  We will probably do EU after the world has transitioned more to IPv6.

SG? estimation date?