Server Colocation Singapore

Colocation in a data center means placing your own physical server hardware inside a professionally managed facility instead of keeping it in your office. The data center provides rack space, power, cooling, physical security, and network connectivity, while your business retains ownership and control of the server, applications, and data. For Singapore businesses, Exabytes offers server colocation in a Tier 3, MAS-compliant data center, starting from S$191.84 per month.

In cloud hosting, you rent virtual server resources from a provider — you do not own the hardware. In colocation, you own your physical server and pay a data center to house it in a secure, connected facility. Colocation gives you full hardware control, predictable costs for high-compute workloads, and data sovereignty — your data stays on your hardware. Cloud hosting offers more flexibility and scalability without upfront hardware investment. Businesses often choose colocation when they have existing server assets, strict compliance requirements, or workloads where cloud costs become prohibitive at scale.

Singapore is Asia Pacific’s primary connectivity hub — with SGIX providing direct peering to 250+ networks and over 28 active subsea cable systems landing in Singapore. For businesses serving customers across Southeast Asia, colocating in Singapore delivers lower latency, faster regional traffic exchange, and data residency within Singapore’s regulatory environment. Singapore data centers also operate under MAS security guidelines, making them a preferred location for regulated industries including financial services.

A Tier 3 data center is a facility with N+1 redundancy across power and cooling systems, meaning every critical component has at least one backup. The Uptime Institute’s Tier 3 standard targets 99.982% infrastructure availability — approximately 1.6 hours of downtime per year. Tier 3 facilities can perform maintenance on infrastructure components without shutting down operations. Exabytes’ Singapore colocation facility is Uptime Institute Tier 3 certified, which is the benchmark standard for enterprise and mission-critical server hosting.

SGIX is the Singapore Internet Exchange — the largest not-for-profit internet exchange in Asia Pacific, with 250+ peers across 16 points of presence. When your server is colocated at an SGIX-connected facility like Exabytes, your traffic can exchange directly with regional ISPs, CDNs, cloud providers, and enterprise networks without routing through expensive upstream transit providers. This reduces latency for end users across Southeast Asia and lowers your bandwidth costs compared to non-peering connectivity.

Yes. Exabytes’ Singapore colocation facility uses multi-layer physical access controls to prevent unauthorised entry. The data center is a single-tenant facility within its own secure compound, independently assessed through a Threat Vulnerability Risk Assessment (TVRA) in compliance with the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s data center security guidelines. This level of physical security is far beyond what is achievable in a typical office server room.

You can manage your server remotely via your standard network connection — SSH, RDP, or any management interface your server supports. Exabytes also provides remote hands support, where the Exabytes data center team can perform physical tasks on your server (such as rebooting, cable checks, or hardware swaps) on your behalf. If you need to visit the facility in person to access your hardware, site access can be arranged through Exabytes’ support team.