ApexByte Care · hosting

Space, power, cooling, uplink, spares, staffing — the whole layer

Three zones, 12 – 15 kW per rack, contained cold aisle, someone on site 7 × 24. Monthly uptime goes into the contract and missing it credits you automatically, capped at that month's hosting fee for that rack. Hardware you already own is welcome if it meets three requirements.

CARE

Rack envelope

Power per rack12 – 15 kW
Intake temperature22 ± 3 °C
Relative humidity40 – 60% RH
CoolingContained cold aisle · air-cooled
Uplink2 × 100 G
On-site staffing7 × 24
Part swapSpare on site +4 h
Contracted uptime≥ 99.9%

Three requirements for your own hardware: standard 19″ rack-mount, no more than 12 kW per machine, out-of-band management port.

Where responsibility divides

What we do · what we do not

Two columns of equal width, side by side; the right one does not get pushed underneath. Setting the boundary before signing is much cheaper than setting it after something breaks.

✓ We are responsible for

  • A/B utility feeds + UPS + generator, with minutes of power loss reported monthly at rack PDU level
  • Contained cold aisle, running intake at 22 ± 3 °C and 40 – 60% RH
  • 2 × 100 G uplink, direct peering with AMS-IX / DE-CIX / SGIX, BGP with your own IP range
  • On-site part swaps: fitted and power-on tested within 4 hours of the spare arriving, 7 × 24 staffing
  • Racking and de-racking, cabling, asset labels, unboxing inspection photographed and archived
  • One monthly uptime report: minutes of power loss, intake temperature curve, ticket response times

✕ We are not responsible for

  • Not your OS, drivers, CUDA or cluster scheduling — that is your operations boundary
  • No hardware warranty on equipment you own, and no responsibility for its failure rate or lifespan: you supply spares, we fit them within 4 hours of arrival
  • No data backup, and we do not touch your business data; we hold out-of-band management access only
  • No end-to-end network latency commitment — only the rack-to-uplink-port segment
  • No equipment above 12 kW per machine, and nothing that is not standard 19″ rack-mount
  • No unplanned relocations; cross-zone migration is quoted per move and scheduled 14 days ahead
  • No indirect loss for interrupted training or lost data and model weights; credits are capped at that month's hosting fee for that rack
  • Force majeure and large-scale upstream carrier outages are excluded from the uptime measurement and generate no credit

How you come in, how you get racked, how you leave

In · running · out

Hosting is a contract with a term, so these three read like a contract annex: items on the left, numbers on the right, the measurement basis on the last line.

01

How it is priced

Billing unitRack · month
Price range$1,650 – $2,800
Minimum term3 months
PowerMetered separately

Billed by the whole rack, not by U. With four 8 U training machines in one rack, that is roughly $540 – $650 per machine per month. Prices are indicative and move with zone, power density and term; the quote governs.

02

How you get racked

Scheduling5 – 10 days after signature and arrival
Your own hardwareAccepted, three requirements
Arrival recordPhotographed + signed by both sides
Out-of-bandIPMI or equivalent, mandatory

Three requirements for your own hardware: standard 19″ rack-mount, no more than 12 kW per machine, out-of-band management port. Customs and export licence waiting are not counted in those 5 – 10 days.

03

How you exit

Notice period30 days, written
De-rack and packWe do it, no charge
Return freightYours
Data erasureNIST SP 800-88 Purge

Erasure is completed within 3 business days of arrival at our warehouse, with a certificate carrying the serial number.

The racks are in three places

Zones · AMS · FRA · SIN

ZoneCityPower / rackCoolingMonthly uptime · measuredNetwork
AMS-02Amsterdam · Netherlands15 kWContained cold aisle · air-cooled99.98%2 × 100 G uplink · AMS-IX peering
FRA-01Frankfurt · Germany15 kWContained cold aisle · air-cooled99.98%2 × 100 G uplink · DE-CIX peering
SIN-01Singapore · Singapore12 kWContained cold aisle · air-cooled99.95%2 × 100 G uplink · SGIX peering
Monthly uptime is a measured 12-month average, not a commitment; the contracted figure is ≥ 99.9% throughout · free capacity is confirmed in the plan

Outage credits · automatic

Outage credits run automatically on monthly uptime and are deducted from the next invoice. You do not file a claim.

The measurement is actual minutes of power loss at the rack PDU. The four exclusions are set out in "How are hosting outages credited" below; force majeure and large-scale upstream carrier outages are excluded and generate no credit.

Monthly uptime → credit

  1. < 99.9%

    10%

    of that month's hosting fee

  2. < 99.5%

    30%

    of that month's hosting fee

  3. < 99.0%

    100%

    of that month's hosting fee

  4. Credit cap

    Capped at that month's hosting fee for that rack, excluding indirect loss

Those 4 hours rest on the cabinet actually having the part

Spares on site

On-site spares cabinetOne drawer open · fan and PSU modules · divider labels legible

The 4 hours start when the spare arrives on site, not when you raise the incident — how long a spare takes to get there depends on supply, and that is in the contract annex. We hold common parts in stock at all three zones, so an on-site part only travels from the cabinet to the rack.

Staffing7 × 24, someone on site
Fitted and power-on testedWithin 4 h of the spare arriving
Spares for your own hardwareYou supply, we fit
Ticket response timeReported monthly
Incident lineops@apexbyte.ai · 7 × 24
A stopped fan or a tripped PDU is not yours to noticeOut-of-band alerts land straight in our ticket system. They trigger our rota, not your phone.

Where this line is the wrong answer

Physical access at will, or data that cannot leave your facility — do not host

The facility has no resident desks; site access needs 3 business days' notice and one of our engineers escorts you. If your team needs frequent hands-on work, or compliance requires data to stay in your own facility, buy the machines and keep them there.

See purchase

How far hosting scales

Scale · per task

Training

Foundation-model pre-training, long-context training, multi-node parallel

ScaleFrom 8 GPUs per node with high-speed interconnect; typically 32 – 256 GPUs
TermUsually 6 months and up, mostly purchase plus hosting
Fine-tune & inference

Domain fine-tuning, LoRA, online inference, vector index rebuilds

Scale8 – 64 GPUs, sized to service peak, redundant across zones if needed
TermUsually 1 – 12 months; rental and hosting both common
Graphics & render

Render farms, visual workloads, virtual workstations

Scale4 – 16 GPUs, scaled by project batch
TermUsually weeks to months, mostly rental

Model, memory, interconnect and itemised pricing are in the plan, within one business day. Quotes are valid 7 days, with scale and scheduling locked to actual conditions on the day.

Hosting terms

All terms
How are hosting outages credited?
On monthly uptime: below 99.9% credits 10% of that month's hosting fee, below 99.5% credits 30%, below 99.0% credits 100%. The measurement is actual minutes of power loss at the rack PDU. Four exclusions, stated plainly: your own OS, drivers and application failures; hardware failures in your own equipment; planned maintenance we announced 7 days ahead; and force majeure or large-scale upstream carrier outages (see "Can we claim further after a credit"). A utility power cut is not an exclusion — that is exactly what the UPS and the generator are for, and if they do not hold, we credit. Credits are capped at that month's hosting fee for that rack and are applied automatically to the following month's invoice; you do not file a claim.
Can you host hardware we already own?
Yes. Three requirements: standard 19″ rack-mount, no more than 12 kW per machine, and IPMI or equivalent out-of-band management. We take power, cooling, network, racking and on-site part fitting; we do not take your hardware warranty and are not responsible for its failure rate or lifespan — you supply spares, we fit them within 4 hours of arrival. Before racking we photograph and both sign off the arrival condition, and that record is the baseline: subsequent natural failure and ageing are outside our scope, while physical damage from our handling is credited. Your hardware must also meet export-control and compliance requirements, and you warrant title and provenance.

Request a quote

Tell us what you need to run. Within one business day you get a plan with scale, unit price and a rack-ready date.

Configuration and scheduling depend on your workload, term and zone, so we quote one-to-one. Prices and lead times on this site are indicative ranges and are not an offer.