Colocation
A secure, monitored home for your servers, with the power, cooling, connectivity, and physical security a business-critical system needs. One accountable team that learns how your business works.
What Is It Costing You to Run Your Own Server Room?
Running critical hardware in a closet or a spare office comes with risks that are easy to ignore until they cost you. A power blip, a warm afternoon, a burst pipe, or an unlocked door can take down the systems your business depends on, and building a proper facility with redundant power, cooling, and security is more than most companies can justify on their own. Colocation gives you that facility without the capital project. You keep control of your equipment, and we provide the secure, monitored environment around it, so your most important systems live somewhere built to keep them running.
What This Means for Your Business
- House your servers in a secure facility built for uptime, not a converted office closet.
- Keep your systems online through power, cooling, and connectivity failures that would sink a home setup.
- Get the protection of a real data center without building or maintaining one yourself.
- Bring your own hardware or run on our dedicated servers, whichever fits your needs.
- Reach certified technicians onsite to handle hardware tasks so you do not have to make the trip.
- Connect the facility straight to your offices or cloud with private, guaranteed bandwidth.
What You Get with Links Colocation
Colocation is about giving your most important systems a place built to keep them running. Here is what your equipment gets when it lives in our facility.
A Facility Built for Uptime
Your equipment sits in our Tier 3-style data center with redundant power, cooling, and connectivity, so a single failure does not take your systems down. Multi-carrier internet with automatic failover means a provider outage does not knock you offline, and fire suppression and environmental controls protect the hardware itself.
Security You Cannot Match in an Office
The facility runs on controlled entry and video surveillance around the clock, with real-time monitoring watching the environment your hardware depends on. Your servers are physically secured in a way a locked office door cannot match, and access stays controlled and logged.
Your Hardware or Ours
Bring your own servers and operate them in our racks and cages, or run on dedicated bare metal hosting and IaaS with no data center to build or maintain. You choose fully managed hardware or keep it in your own hands, and you can scale up without a construction project.
Hands Onsite When You Need Them
You do not have to drive to the facility every time hardware needs attention. Certified technicians are onsite for maintenance, monitoring, and emergencies, and they handle hardware swaps, cabling, diagnostics, and support tasks on your behalf, so your equipment is looked after even when your team is not there.
COLOCATION AND HOSTING
Room for Your Servers, Built and Secured
Whether you own your servers or want dedicated hardware without the overhead, you get a secure, professionally run environment for them. Store and operate your own equipment in our racks and cages, or run your workloads on high-performance servers we provide, managed by us or by your own team.
Either way, you get the facility, the power, the cooling, and the security without the cost of building and maintaining a data center yourself. Here is what that covers.
- Rack and cage colocation for your owned servers in our Tier 3-style data center, with 24/7 controlled access and video surveillance.
- Redundant power, cooling, and connectivity, so a single failure does not take your systems offline.
- Bare metal hosting and IaaS with dedicated, high-performance servers, fully managed or client-managed, ready for custom workloads.
NETWORK AND ONSITE SUPPORT
Fast, Private Connections and Real Hands
A server is only useful if your team and systems can reach it reliably. We provide dedicated bandwidth and a low-latency, high-availability network, with private connections that link the facility directly to your offices or cloud, so your critical systems stay fast and reachable.
And when hardware needs a physical touch, you have certified technicians onsite instead of a drive across town. Here is what that covers.
- Guaranteed dedicated bandwidth for your critical workloads, with low-latency, high-availability performance.
- Site-to-site VPN and direct private connectivity to your offices or cloud environments.
- Smart hands support from certified technicians for hardware swaps, cabling, diagnostics, and emergencies.
Why Businesses Trust Us with Their IT
Decades of Experience
Since 1999, we have delivered IT that works for businesses of every size across the Chicago area. That track record means we have likely solved the problems you face already, and we bring that judgment to your systems from the start.
Proactive & Preventative Approach
We do not wait for something to break before we act. Our team watches your systems, spots the warning signs, and resolves potential issues before they reach your operations, so problems stay small and your people keep working without interruption.
Tailored IT Solutions
We understand that every business is unique. Before we recommend anything, we learn how you work, then customize our solutions to fit your specific needs and goals, rather than handing you the same standard package every other provider sells.
Local Presence. National Reach.
We are based right here and know your area, so help is never far away. At the same time, we bring the resources and reach of a national provider, giving you the strengths of both without the trade-offs of either.
Veteran Owned. Values Driven.
As a veteran-owned company, we run on the values our founders served by: integrity, loyalty, and a commitment to excellence. Those principles shape every recommendation we make, and they are the reason clients stay with us for years.
Get IT That Perfectly Fits Your Business
Tell us how your business works and what your critical systems need. We will listen first, then recommend a clear next step.