Buyer's Guide
Most Indian colocation contracts run 3-5 years and are expensive to unwind mid-term, which makes the selection process worth doing properly rather than defaulting to whichever provider a vendor introduced first. Here is the sequence we run with clients scoping a colocation move, from workload requirements through to contract negotiation.
For a standard rack deployment: 4-8 weeks from shortlisting to operational, including facility tours, contract negotiation, and rack-and-stack. Larger cage or custom-power deployments, or anything requiring MeitY empanelment verification, commonly run 3-6 months.
Yes, always, for any deployment beyond a small pilot rack. A site visit reveals things marketing material won't — actual security procedures in practice, facility cleanliness and organisation, how remote-hands requests are actually handled, and whether the sales pitch matches operational reality.
Power consumption for compute-dense modern hardware. Rack rent is the headline number everyone compares, but power is metered separately and scales with actual usage — a rack running dense GPU or high-core-count hardware can have a power bill exceeding the rack rent itself. Model power cost explicitly against your actual hardware specs, not the facility's minimum included allowance.
Splitting across two providers — typically primary production with one, DR with another — is common specifically for risk diversification, so a single provider's operational failure or contract dispute doesn't take down both your production and backup simultaneously. It adds vendor management overhead, which is the trade-off against that resilience benefit.
Get an NTT colocation or managed-services quote priced in INR with GST invoice — we scope rack, power and connectivity needs and manage onboarding.