Business Plan
At Mt Knox, secure datacenter floor space begins at
$500/month, no setup fees, no service initiation fees, and provides
enough space for three (possibly four) standard 19 inch computer racks.
With many of our competitors, the cost of establishing an off-site
datacenter can be $5,000/month and up, plus setup fees, service
initiation fees, etc. This is normally far beyond the reach of small
and medium size businesses.
Mt Knox mission, goals, and plan
- Provide affordable datacenter floor space for small and medium size
businesses.
- Customer owns all computing equipment, networking equipment,
cabling, racks, power backup, network connections, and telephone
communications they require to support their off-site IT
environment.
- Customer can provision their off-site datacenter at Mt
Knox with any equipment they wish: new, used, vendor
supported, or even equipment and operating systems that are no longer
supported by the vendor.
- Mt Knox uses small inexpensive strip mall store
fronts as datacenters to reduce costs to customers.
- We provide securable cubes to each customer with 220 and/or 110 VAC
power, environmental control, and access to communications and
networking.
- Datacenter floor space rates are based on monthly cube rental.
- Facility access is billed on a per incident basis at a daily
rate.
- Power is metered to each cube and billed according to actual
usage, no fees or surcharges are ever applied.
- Internet connection and telecommunications are billed directly to
customer in the customers name, thereby avoiding any processing charges,
service fees, handling fees, or surcharge.
- Mt Knox datacenters are "lights out" facilities to
reduce costs to customer. Physical access to the facility is by
appointment and with escort.
Cost Comparison
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Typical Charges
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Our Competitors
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Mt Knox
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Monthly Fee
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$5,000+
|
$500
|
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Initiation Fee
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$2,500+
|
$0
|
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Setup Fee
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$2,500+
|
$0
|
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Bandwidth Surcharge
|
$100
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$0
|
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Electricity Surcharge
|
$100
|
$0
|
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Total
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$10,200
|
$500
|
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Annualized Total
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$65,200
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$6,000
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