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// Home Lab → Real Colo

Your Home Lab
Deserves a
Better Home.

Running servers in your closet, spare bedroom, or garage gets old fast. Columbia Colocation gives your hardware a real home — proper power, proper fiber, a real static IP, and no ISP threatening to cancel you for running servers. From $85/mo for 1U.

Static public IP included Unmetered bandwidth No contracts
$85
1U / Month — Founder
1
Static IP Included
Bandwidth — Unmetered
$0
Egress Fees

What You Deal With at Home.
What Changes When You Colo.

If you've been running servers at home long enough, you know the friction. Here's what moves to the past when your hardware is somewhere better.

// Before

Residential ISP Blocking Ports

Your ISP blocks 80, 443, 25, 22. You're running everything on weird ports. Dynamic IP means updating DNS every time power flickers. CGNAT means your server isn't really public.

// After

Static IP, Ports Open, Real Uplink

You get a real static public IP. All ports available. No CGNAT. A business-grade fiber uplink with no residential terms of service. Run whatever services you want.

// Before

Power Outages Take Everything Down

A car hits a utility pole three blocks away and your server is down until power comes back. Your partner wants to know why the loud machines are still running at 2am.

// After

UPS-Protected, Grid-Reliable Power

Grant County PUD has delivered power without outage for 2+ years at our facility. UPS protection in place. Generator backup in progress. The uptime argument moves to your ISP's problem.

// Before

Heat, Noise, WAF Issues

The server room is a sauna in July. The fans are audible from the living room. The household has opinions. The power bill went up and nobody knows why.

// After

Climate-Controlled, Out of the House

Your hardware lives in a temperature-managed environment. Your home is quiet. Your power bill reflects actual household usage. Everyone is happier.

// Before

No Real DR or Redundancy

If your house burns down, your server goes with it. Your backup is on the same NAS as your primary. Your "offsite backup" is your friend's house.

// After

True Geographic Separation

Your hardware in Quincy, your home in Seattle — different power grids, different locations, true DR separation. Back up your home machines to your colocated server. Actual redundancy.

Everything a Home Lab Needs. Nothing It Doesn't.

No upsells, no "enterprise add-ons." Here's what comes with every rack space from day one.

🌐

Static Public IP

One static public IPv4 included with every plan. No CGNAT. No dynamic DNS workarounds. Additional IPs $5/mo. /29 and /28 blocks available.

Unmetered Bandwidth

Bandwidth is included on Grant County PUD fiber — no overage billing, no 95th percentile games. Run a file server, game server, or media server without worrying about the bill.

🔒

VLAN Isolation

Your traffic is isolated from other customers. Private VLAN keeps your server off the public internet if you want it that way — useful for lab environments and internal services.

🔌

Power Included

Standard power draw included in your plan rate. No separate power billing for normal server loads. High-draw configs available — contact us if you're running something thirsty.

📞

Actual Human Support

Call or text 509-906-1250 and you reach the person who manages the facility. Need a reboot? We'll handle it. Need eyes on something? We'll schedule a visit.

📋

No Contract

Month-to-month. Cancel anytime. Founder pricing locks your rate for 24 months, but you're never locked into a term. If it's not working, you take your hardware back.

What Home Lab Operators Actually Colocate

We're not picky about workloads. Here's the range of things customers run when they finally get their hardware out of the closet.

01

Self-Hosted Services (Nextcloud, Jellyfin, Plex, Home Assistant)

Media servers, cloud storage, and home automation backends that need to be accessible from outside your house — without VPN gymnastics or exposing your residential IP.

02

Game Servers (Minecraft, Valheim, Satisfactory, Project Zomboid)

Dedicated game servers for your group — better latency than a VPS, more control than a managed host, and unmetered bandwidth so you're not paying per player-hour of data.

03

Personal VPN & Network Endpoints

WireGuard or OpenVPN exit nodes, Tailscale subnets, and routing endpoints that need a stable static IP in a known jurisdiction — not a VPN provider you're just trusting with your traffic.

04

Dev & Staging Environments

Test environments, CI/CD runners, staging servers for personal or client projects — hardware you own, configurations you control, no cloud billing surprises when a pipeline runs hot.

05

NAS & Backup Targets

Synology or TrueNAS units serving as an offsite backup destination — your home machines back up to Quincy, your colo server backs up locally. Actual 3-2-1 backup without S3 egress fees.

06

Firewall & Network Appliances

pfSense, OPNsense, or MikroTik devices acting as VPN concentrators, DNS resolvers, or routing endpoints. 1U fits most appliances — and they run light on power.

📋 Being Honest About What We Are

We're a small, focused facility in Quincy, WA — not a hyperscale campus. 4 racks available, ISP-operated, UPS on single-feed power, generator backup in progress. On-site visits are by appointment with local staff. If you need 99.999% SLA, enterprise NOC, or multiple power paths today — we're not there yet. If you need a real home for your server at a price that doesn't require a business case, we're exactly right. We're transparent about what we are and what we're building toward.

Home Lab Colocation FAQs

What kind of hardware can I colocate? +
Anything rack-mountable in 1U to 4U (or larger by arrangement). 1U servers, 2U servers, NAS units, mini-ITX builds in rack cases, pfSense/OPNsense appliances, MikroTik routers — if it fits in a rack and draws reasonable power, we can host it. For unusually high power draws, contact us first so we can confirm the capacity.
I don't have rack-mount hardware — can I still colocate? +
Tower servers and consumer hardware typically need a rack-mount shelf or conversion kit. We can discuss what you have — some tower units fit fine with a 2U shelf. If you'd rather not deal with hardware at all, our bare metal rental is $99/mo and includes a dedicated Dell PowerEdge with iDRAC remote access.
How do I get remote access to my server? +
Via your static public IP — SSH, RDP, web interfaces, whatever your server offers. If you need out-of-band access (IPMI, iDRAC, or a serial console for a machine that won't boot), let us know and we'll work out remote management options. For simple reboots, just call us.
What if I need to access my hardware physically? +
By appointment — call or text us and we'll coordinate. Our technician is based in the Quincy area. Quincy is 3 hours from Seattle on I-90, so a Saturday drive-out for a hardware upgrade is very reasonable. Most situations (reboots, cable checks, drive swaps) we can handle for you without you needing to come out.
Can I run multiple services on one box? +
Absolutely. Run Nextcloud, a game server, a VPN, and a backup agent all on the same machine if you want — we're not managing what's on your hardware. The bandwidth is unmetered on PUD fiber so running multiple services doesn't change your bill.

Move Your Server Out for $85/mo

Founder pricing locked 24 months from install. $0 setup, month-to-month. Power, bandwidth, static IP, and VLAN all included. Full details on our colocation page.

1U Founder
$85/mo
Std: $110/mo
2U Founder
$150/mo
Std: $175/mo
4U Founder
$260/mo
Std: $280/mo

Full pricing, larger deployments, and what's included →

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Ready to Get Your Server Out of the House?

Tell us what you're running — we'll talk through rack size, power, and getting it moved. No sales pitch, just practical info.

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