Rackdog: Rackdog Frankfurt

Rackdog Frankfurt is a Rackdog location in Frankfurt, Germany published on the operator’s official locations page. The official website independently identified for this investigation is rackdog.com. The reviewed official sources confirm Frankfurt, DE as a Rackdog deployment location and confirm Rackdog offers bare metal infrastructure from its global locations. They also publish organization-level statements about high-tier data center partners, redundant power and cooling, physical and electronic access control, Tier 1 connectivity, DDoS protection, and global network scale. However, the reviewed official sources do not publish a dedicated Rackdog Frankfurt facility specification page with a street address, named underlying building operator, rack count, total power, gross space, or facility-specific certification scope. Third-party interconnection sources show Rackdog network presence in Equinix FR7 in Frankfurt and public peering at DE-CIX Frankfurt, but the reviewed official sources do not identify which exact building corresponds to the Rackdog Frankfurt location.

⚙️ Facility Highlights

1. Official website: rackdog.com. (operator stated, organization level)
2. Facility identity: Frankfurt, DE is published by the operator as a named location on Rackdog’s official locations page. (operator stated, facility/location level)
3. Operator: Rackdog. Third-party network records identify the organization as Rackdog, LLC for ASN 398465. (operator stated, organization level; third party, organization level)
4. Owner: Not publicly disclosed.
5. City: Frankfurt, Germany. (operator stated, facility/location level)
6. Official facility street address:
7. Bare metal availability: Rackdog states customers can deploy real bare metal from its global locations, including Frankfurt. (operator stated, facility/location level)
8. Managed services availability: Rackdog markets managed services, but the reviewed official sources do not publish Frankfurt-specific managed-services scope. (operator stated, organization level)
9. Colocation availability: Not publicly disclosed for Rackdog Frankfurt in the reviewed current official sources.
10. Cloud / IaaS availability: Rackdog describes itself as operating high-performance bare metal and networking systems, but the reviewed official sources do not publish a distinct Frankfurt facility-level IaaS service description. (operator stated, organization level)

🔐 Security & Compliance

1. Physical security: Rackdog states its operators oversee 24/7 physical and electronic access control for the facilities it uses. This is an operator-level / partner-facility statement, not a Frankfurt-only specification. (operator stated, organization level)
2. Security positioning: Rackdog states each location is hosted in high-tier data centers with clearly defined power and cooling redundancy levels. (operator stated, organization level)
3. Operational support: Rackdog states real engineers, 24/7 are on call to troubleshoot, optimize, or scale deployments. (operator stated, organization level)

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

1. Network connectivity positioning: Rackdog states its global network is powered by Tier 1 ISPs and premium data center providers, with direct routing, multi-path redundancy, and near-zero packet loss positioning. (operator stated, organization level)
2. Redundant carrier architecture: Rackdog states it uses multiple network routers with redundant and diverse Tier 1 carriers. (operator stated, organization level)
3. DDoS protection: Rackdog states it provides multi-layer DDoS protection. (operator stated, organization level)
4. Network scale: Rackdog publishes 5 Tbps total network capacity, 400G ports, 1500+ peers, and a 99.99% uptime SLA at organization level. (operator stated, organization level)
5. Public interconnection context: PeeringDB shows Rackdog network presence in Equinix FR7 - Frankfurt, Gutleutstrasse. This is third-party network/interconnection evidence and does not by itself identify the exact Rackdog Frankfurt building. (third party, network/facility presence)
6. Public peering context: PeeringDB shows Rackdog public peering at DE-CIX Frankfurt. This is network-level interconnection context and not confirmation that Rackdog Frankfurt itself operates an Internet Exchange. (third party, network level)
7. Carrier neutrality: Not publicly disclosed for Rackdog Frankfurt.
8. Carriers on-net / pricing: Not publicly disclosed for Rackdog Frankfurt.
9. Internet exchange at the investigated location: Not publicly disclosed. Rackdog’s ASN appears at DE-CIX Frankfurt in third-party records, but the reviewed official sources do not state that Rackdog Frankfurt itself operates an Internet Exchange. (not publicly disclosed / third party, network context)

💼 Who It Serves

1. Customer type: Rackdog states it builds infrastructure for companies and developers. (operator stated, organization level)
2. Enterprise workloads: Rackdog markets infrastructure for regulated industries, high performance computing, and large enterprises / cloud shift workloads. (operator stated, organization level)
3. Performance-sensitive workloads: Rackdog markets low-latency backbone connectivity and global deployments for performance-sensitive use cases. (operator stated, organization level)