ColocationPLUS

ColocationPLUS is a U.S. colocation brand operated by Prominic.NET and focused on secure, scalable data center colocation and managed infrastructure services in Central Illinois. Public company materials position ColocationPLUS as a Midwest focused provider serving businesses that want to retain control of their own hardware while outsourcing facility operations, power, cooling, connectivity, and on site support. The brand states it brings more than 20 years of infrastructure experience through Prominic.NET, and its current portfolio centers on colocation, disaster recovery colocation, GPU and Mac colocation, remote hands, and virtualization related services tied to Proxmox and VMware. Its public positioning emphasizes audited facilities, redundant A/B power, resilient cooling, multi carrier connectivity, and geographically separated sites for business continuity.

⚙️ Facility Highlights

Data Center Footprint:

ColocationPLUS publicly states that it operates three enterprise grade data center facilities in Central Illinois. Its data center page identifies these as Rantoul 1, Rantoul 2, and Champaign 1, while its broader infrastructure page says the facilities operate independently yet are interconnected for redundancy.

The company’s geographic positioning is strongly Midwest oriented. Public materials say the facilities are within a few hours of Chicago, St. Louis, and Indianapolis, and the FAQ says its two primary data center markets are Champaign and Rantoul, geographically separated by 30 miles for redundancy and disaster recovery use cases.

Facility Design & Infrastructure:

ColocationPLUS publishes substantial infrastructure detail across its site. Official materials describe redundant A/B power, building wide UPS systems, backup generators, tandem cooling units, private fiber between facilities, radio link backup, multiple Tier 1 ISPs, and continuous environmental monitoring. The Rantoul 1 site is described as an ex military facility with separate A/B power grids and backup generators, while Rantoul 2 is positioned for scalability and private cages.

Deployment options range from single unit placements to shared and private cabinets and custom multi rack solutions. The pricing page publicly shows 1U, 2U, 10U shared cabinet options and 42U private cabinet options, while the main site says ColocationPLUS supports single unit, partial rack, and full cabinet deployments.

Service Portfolio Overview:

ColocationPLUS publicly markets colocation as its core service, including SMB colocation, enterprise colocation, disaster recovery colocation, GPU server colocation, and Mac colocation. The company also advertises remote hands, monitoring, firewall, backup space, system administration, and network administration as add on services.

Beyond physical colocation, the company also markets Proxmox VE virtualization services, Proxmox Backup Server related services, and VMware virtualization services. These are presented as hosting and virtualization support offerings rather than a broad public cloud catalog.

🔐 Security & Compliance

Infrastructure Resilience:

ColocationPLUS publicly describes its facilities as fully redundant and engineered for uptime. Official materials cite A/B redundant power grids, backup generators, building wide UPS systems, tandem cooling, private fiber interconnection, and radio backup links, with each data center able to serve as a redundant site for the others.

Its publicly stated uptime commitment is a 99.99 percent network uptime guarantee. The disaster recovery and FAQ materials also emphasize geographic separation and secondary facility support for redundancy and recovery planning.

Physical & Logical Security:

ColocationPLUS says its facilities use layered physical and logical controls. Official pages reference two factor authentication, surveillance cameras, alarms, user authentication for physical access, environmental monitoring, and encryption, while the Rantoul 1 site is described as the company’s most secure facility.

The company also states that all plans include free remote hands for simple issues, with optional smart hands for more advanced hardware diagnosis and support. Its colocation materials repeatedly describe 24/7 support and on call technical assistance.

Compliance & Standards:

ColocationPLUS publicly states that its facilities undergo annual SSAE 18 SOC 1 and SOC 2 audits, with reports available to customers. Its About page also says the facilities are built to meet HIPAA compliance standards, and the FAQ adds HIPAA and GDPR compliance language alongside the annual SSAE 18 SOC 2 audit reference.

The reviewed public sources did not clearly show ISO 27001, ISO 9001, PCI DSS, or Uptime Institute certifications under the ColocationPLUS brand. Those are Not publicly listed.

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

Carrier Neutrality:

ColocationPLUS does not explicitly use the phrase carrier neutral on the reviewed pages. However, it repeatedly states that each facility connects to multiple Tier 1 ISPs and that customers can obtain robust or blended bandwidth from multiple telecom carriers.

Because your standard is strict and formal carrier neutral wording was not clearly published, carrier neutrality itself is best treated as Not publicly listed, even though multi carrier access is clearly supported.

Network Capabilities:

The company’s network posture is one of its strongest published differentiators. ColocationPLUS states that facilities connect to multiple Tier 1 ISPs, use private fiber links between primary sites, maintain radio link backup, and support Dedicated Internet Access, VPN/MPLS, Wave of Light, and dark fiber options. The enterprise colocation page also says the facilities are ready for MPLS, dark fiber, and VMware vSAN stretch cluster needs.

The FAQ also names carriers such as Sprint, AT&T, Comcast, and Hurricane Electric, and says blended bandwidth can be provided. Public materials further describe high availability connectivity and BGP protected or multi homed connectivity in summary content.

Connectivity Use Cases:

The published service set supports organizations that want off site colocation near Chicago, St. Louis, or Indianapolis with redundant power, resilient connectivity, and remote support. That is especially relevant for disaster recovery, secondary site, and custom multi rack deployments.

The same materials also support enterprises deploying Proxmox or VMware virtualization stacks in colocation, including clustered environments, backup services, and high density computing workloads such as AI and GPU based deployments.

💼 Who It Serves

Businesses needing secure Midwest colocation with redundant power, cooling, and multi carrier connectivity.

Organizations seeking geographically separated disaster recovery colocation near Chicago, St. Louis, and Indianapolis.

Enterprises running Proxmox or VMware based virtualized environments that need colocation plus infrastructure support.

Customers with high power density, GPU, Mac, or other specialized hosting requirements.