Colocation Stockholm

Data centre specifications

Both Adminor data centres in Stockholm meet the same technical standard. Specifications below apply to Solna (Barks väg) and Västberga (Västberga Allé). For facility-specific details, see the Solna facility or the Västberga facility individually.

Peering and network architecture

The networking value of Adminor colocation lies in direct peering relationships at Stockholm's most important internet exchange points. Compared to providers running only transit, this gives:

• Lower latency to Swedish and Nordic users. Traffic to Bahnhof, Telenor, Tele2, Bredbandsbolaget and government networks routes directly without unnecessary hops.
• More predictable performance during traffic spikes. Peering provides independent capacity compared to a single transit provider.
• Ability to establish your own BGP sessions for customers who need to announce their own prefixes. We act as Sponsoring LIR for ASN and PI prefix assignments.
• Looking-glass visibility — operational transparency. Other network operators can verify our BGP policy independently.

Peering exchanges Adminor is active at: STHIX (Stockholm Internet Exchange), SONIX (Stockholm Open Network Infrastructure eXchange), KN7/Stokab (Stockholm city network). Transit providers: Telia (AS3301), GTT (AS3257) and Hurricane Electric (AS6939).

Solna or Västberga — which fits you?

Both facilities are technically equivalent with the same per-U price and the same AS51701 backbone. The difference is geographic:

Many customers with higher redundancy requirements run both facilities as active-active or active-passive — data replication across Adminor's internal 100 Gbps network, automatic failover via BGP. Cross-DC traffic between Solna and Västberga is free within the same customer.

Remote hands

For customers who don't want to travel to the facility for routine tasks, basic Remote Hands is included from 2U upward:

• Server reboots (soft or hard via PDU control)
• Cable swaps and physical connection of new servers within established space
• Visual inspection (status LEDs, fans, indicators)
• First-line troubleshooting on obvious hardware issues

More extensive work — firmware updates, hardware swaps, RMA handling, full installation of new servers — is billed at hourly rates or included in a Managed Hosting agreement. Emergency actions outside business hours are possible against an additional fee.

Colocation Sweden — why host here instead of abroad?

Many European companies initially moved infrastructure to Germany (Frankfurt), the Netherlands (Amsterdam) or Ireland (Dublin) for lower prices. Recently a counter-movement has emerged: companies moving infrastructure back to Sweden. The reasons are typically practical and regulatory:

• Swedish jurisdiction and GDPR. Data in Sweden is handled under Swedish law and EU GDPR. US parent-company providers (AWS, Azure, Google) remain exposed to the US CLOUD Act even when hardware sits in Frankfurt or Stockholm. A wholly-owned Swedish operator like Adminor — with no foreign group — eliminates that exposure.
• Latency to Nordic users. Stockholm-based colocation gives under 5 ms to Swedish consumers and about 10–15 ms to Helsinki, Copenhagen, Oslo. Frankfurt is 20–35 ms from Stockholm — noticeable in e-commerce, gaming and real-time applications.
• EU AI Act and data localisation. The new European AI Regulation (2024/1689) imposes specific data handling requirements on AI systems. Hosting within the EU and demonstrably within Sweden simplifies compliance reporting.
• Swedish support during business hours. Phone support in Swedish might sound trivial but matters during acute incidents. Escalating technical details in your native language to someone who actually knows Swedish IT culture saves time.
• Energy economics. Swedish electricity is 96 % fossil-free (hydro, nuclear, wind) and data centre power costs are competitive with Germany post-2024 energy crisis. Stockholm's climate enables natural free cooling much of the year.
• No unexpected exit costs. Swedish colocation is invoiced monthly in SEK. No currency surprises, no opaque hosting-fee structures that US cloud providers tend to apply retroactively.

For Swedish B2B companies with Swedish customers, colocation Sweden is now both economically and regulatorily the simplest choice — not the expensive premium position it was 5–10 years ago.

Common colocation use cases

• Hybrid cloud strategy — core systems on owned hardware with us, burst capacity in public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP). We connect via dedicated fibre or IPsec.
• License-bound software — Oracle, SAP, certain ERP systems where hardware-bound licensing makes cloud impractical.
• High-performance databases — where every 0.1 ms counts and dedicated NVMe on owned hardware beats virtualisation.
• Compliance-driven hosting — financial services, health data, government contracts requiring physical separation and Swedish data residency.
• Smaller ISPs or network operators — colocation plus BGP peering for establishing your own AS and routing policy.
• Refurbished enterprise hardware fleets — companies running purchased used enterprise servers (Dell PowerEdge, HPE ProLiant) who need reliable hosting for them.

All prices excl. VAT · Full rack and custom solutions on request · Power for Quarter Rack and above billed at actual consumption (kWh)

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Professional co-location in Stockholm — secure, redundant and with your own AS number available.