ETS Vault Compute

ETS Vault Compute runs in carrier-neutral, Tier III-design facilities across the East and Southeast US, connected to one another over a 100 Gbps+ private backbone with dedicated low-latency east-to-west transit. You can colocate primary workloads in one region and DR in another with sub-10 ms replication, and reach West-coast users without bouncing across the public internet.

For steady-state workloads with predictable I/O — yes, often substantially. We typically see 36-month total cost 40–60% below the equivalent Azure or AWS reserved-instance bill once you factor in egress, reserved-capacity gaps, and rightsized licensing. For bursty or development workloads, public cloud usually wins. Most ETS Vault Compute clients run a hybrid: stable production in our East / Southeast US footprint, dev/test and burst in cloud — connected over Azure ExpressRoute, AWS Direct Connect, or Google Cloud Interconnect.

Almost always — and often by a margin most owners don't realize until they total it up. A real private server room costs more than the rack itself: redundant utility power, on-site UPS and generator, N+1 cooling, biometric access, fire suppression, audit-ready monitoring, the staff hours to run all of it, and the periodic hardware refresh. Most SMBs we move into ETS Vault Compute eliminate $40K–$150K+ per year of hidden self-hosting cost — capital, energy, insurance, and labor — and replace it with a flat monthly bill that already includes the redundancy, security, and remote hands.

Almost always — and usually by a wide margin once you compare apples to apples. Cheap web hosts price low on the headline plan, then mark up everything that actually matters: SSL, backup, mailbox storage, CPU/RAM upgrades, dedicated IPs, support tickets that actually get answered. Once your business outgrows the brochure tier, the bill quietly catches the public-cloud bill — and the support is still a Tier-1 chat agent reading a script. ETS Vault Compute gives you a real cabinet (or virtual server in our managed private cloud) with real engineers on the phone, included remote hands hours, and a flat predictable monthly bill. Most clients leaving GoDaddy / IONOS / HostGator / Bluehost-tier hosts pay roughly the same once they price the same workload in apples-to-apples terms — but they get a Tier III data center and senior engineers on the other end of the ticket instead of a reseller.

We see this every week. The math on aging hardware almost never works the way you'd hope: a 6-year-old server is past warranty, drawing 2x the power of a modern equivalent, running an OS that's near or past end-of-support, and one failed power supply away from a 3-day outage. The avoided $25K capital refresh quietly costs more in downtime risk, energy, support hours, and cyber-insurance premium loadings. Migrating to ETS Vault Compute eliminates the capital purchase entirely — your workload moves to current-gen hardware in a Tier III facility on a flat monthly bill, including hardware refresh on our schedule (not yours), backup, monitoring, and support. Most clients are net cash-flow-positive within 12–18 months versus the cost of either buying a new server OR continuing to pay for the old one's ongoing care and feeding.

We've moved customers off GoDaddy hosting, Microsoft 365 resellers, on-prem ESXi clusters, AWS EC2 fleets, and 'the server in the closet that nobody touches.' The playbook is the same: discovery (what workloads, what data, what dependencies), parallel build in ETS Vault Compute, low-risk cutover during a planned window, and a 30-day post-cutover safety period where the old environment stays available as a rollback. We coordinate with your existing vendor — including handling reseller release / domain transfer / DNS migration / data export if applicable — so you don't have to fight that battle yourself.

99.9% uptime SLA on power, temperature, and humidity within the rack — backed by N+1 redundant utility feeds, on-site generators, battery UPS, and N+1 mechanical cooling. Network uptime is governed separately by the carrier you choose; we help you select carriers with 99.99%+ SLAs and dual-path them for true high availability.

Either. You can colocate your existing servers, switches, and SAN — we handle the move, rack, and burn-in. Or we'll source new hardware on Dell PowerEdge, HPE ProLiant, or Supermicro at partner pricing, configure it, and ship it racked and ready. Most clients do a mix.

The facility provides the physical-security and environmental-control side: documented access logs, biometric and badge entry, mantrap-style entries, CCTV at perimeter and cabinet level, and audit-ready evidence packets. We provide the operational layer — hardening, patching, MFA, encryption, and the WISP / SSP documentation your auditor wants. Together it's a clean compliance story instead of two binders that don't match.

Yes — up to 30 kW per rack with hot-aisle containment, suitable for H100 / H200 GPU servers, AI inference clusters, and HPC nodes. Most office data closets max out below 5 kW per rack and overheat the second a model starts training.

Anything physical that doesn't require you on-site: reboot a hung server, reseat a cable, swap a failed drive, mount installation media, install a replacement card, label cables, run a Cat6A pull within the cabinet. Billed in 15-minute increments. For most clients this replaces 80–90% of the trips that used to mean a 90-minute drive each way.

Both options exist under ETS Vault Compute. Self-managed: you get the cabinet, power, network, and physical security; you run the OS and apps. Fully managed: we operate the OS, hypervisor, patching, monitoring, backup, and incident response — same flat-fee model as our managed-IT plans, just on hardware that lives in a real Tier III data center instead of your office.

Public cloud sells you metered compute, storage, and network — you don't see the hardware and you pay for every byte that crosses a region. ETS Vault Compute gives you a physical cabinet (or a virtual machine inside our managed private cloud), N+1 redundant power and cooling, included cross-connects, included remote hands hours, and a flat predictable bill. Public cloud wins on elasticity; Vault Compute wins on predictability, cost-per-watt, and audit-ready physical security.

Yes. The facilities provide the physical-security layer (mantraps, biometric and badge access, cabinet-level CCTV, environmental monitoring, audit-ready access logs); ETS provides the operational layer — encryption, MFA, hardening, patching, logging, and the WISP / SSP documentation auditors actually want. Our CUI-capable footprint specifically supports DFARS 252.204-7012 and CMMC Level 2 candidates — relevant for federal contractors across the Southeast US and beyond.