Montreal Colocation Data Center
By Reboot Monkey Team
Reboot Monkey contracts rack space in Montreal facilities that match your power, network and access requirements, then delivers, installs and supports your equipment under one agreement.
Montreal Colocation Data Center: How It Works
A Montreal colocation data center arrangement through Reboot Monkey starts with a conversation about what your equipment actually needs: power draw, network access, physical space and how often your staff expect to touch the hardware. Reboot Monkey is a third-party datacenter services operator, not a hosting company and not a datacenter owner. That distinction matters for how the work gets done. Rather than operating its own buildings, Reboot Monkey contracts rack space inside partner facilities in Montreal that fit the customer's power, network and access requirements, then delivers, installs and supports the equipment under a single agreement. You do not sign one contract with a facility operator and a second one with a services vendor. You sign one agreement with Reboot Monkey, and Reboot Monkey manages the relationship with the facility on your behalf. The practical flow looks like this: you describe the equipment and the requirements, Reboot Monkey identifies which Montreal facility fits those requirements, the rack space is contracted, and your hardware is received, installed and connected by Reboot Monkey engineers on site. From that point forward, any physical task on that equipment, a reboot, a cable check, a component swap, a migration to a different rack, goes through Reboot Monkey rather than through a facility help desk you have to coordinate with separately. Colocation prices are quoted per facility and rack size, so the first step in any request is specifying the rack footprint and the facility that matches your power and network needs. This model is built for organizations that need a physical presence in Montreal without taking on the overhead of negotiating directly with a facility operator, managing a separate access and escalation process, and coordinating hardware logistics on their own. The agreement covers the rack space, the installation, and the ongoing support described below, as one line of accountability.
Datacenter Facilities in Montreal
PeeringDB lists 22 facilities in Montreal. The list below shows those with the most networks:
- Cologix MTL3 (Cologix, Inc.), Rene Levesque West: 85 networks; carriers Arelion, EBOX, EXA Infrastructure and i3D.net
- Cologix MTL7 (Cologix, Inc.), University St: 26 networks; carriers EBOX
- Cologix MTL11 (Cologix, Inc.), Rue Saint-Antoine O: 18 networks; carriers Arelion, EBOX and EXA Infrastructure
- eStruxture MTL-1 (eStruxture Data Centers Inc.), Rue du Square-Victoria: 16 networks
- Cologix MTL2 (Cologix, Inc.), Rene-Levesque: 15 networks; carriers Ssmidge Technologies
- Cologix MTL1 (Cologix, Inc.), Rene-Levesque Blvd: 12 networks
- Vantage Data Centers (QC1), Avenue Marie Curie: 12 networks; carriers Arelion and i3D.net
- eStruxture MTL-2 (eStruxture Data Centers Inc.), Rue Saint-Jacques: 10 networks
- Leaseweb MTL-01 (Leaseweb Canada), place du Commerce, Iles des soeurs: 5 networks
- eStruxture MTL-4 (eStruxture Data Centers Inc.), Trans Canada Hwy: 5 networks
What We Deliver
Once equipment is colocated in a Montreal facility under Reboot Monkey, a defined set of services covers what happens to that hardware day to day. These are not generic facility services: they are carried out by Reboot Monkey engineers who work inside the contracted rack space on your instruction or under a standing monitoring arrangement.
- Remote hands: physical tasks carried out on the customer's instruction, including reboots, cable checks, component swaps and visual checks, requested as needed without the customer traveling to the facility.
- Smart hands: technical work that requires diagnostic judgement and configuration knowledge, for situations where a straightforward physical task is not enough and the problem needs to be assessed on site.
- Rack and stack: installing, mounting and cabling new hardware when equipment first arrives at the facility or when additional units are added to an existing deployment.
- Server migration: moving equipment between racks, rooms or facilities, handled by Reboot Monkey so that a change in footprint does not require the customer to manage logistics directly.
- Hardware monitoring: monitoring of the customer's servers and network equipment by the Reboot Monkey NOC, giving the customer visibility into the state of their deployment without staffing an on-site presence themselves.
- Data center decommissioning: removing and disposing of retired hardware when equipment reaches end of life or a deployment is being wound down.
Why Reboot Monkey
Working with Reboot Monkey in Montreal means working with one point of contact across the entire lifecycle of a colocation deployment, from the initial rack placement through ongoing support and, eventually, decommissioning. The alternative, contracting directly with a facility operator and then separately sourcing a technical services provider, means two agreements, two escalation paths and two parties to coordinate when something needs attention. Reboot Monkey removes that split. Connectivity is one area where this matters in practice. Cross connects and carrier circuits in a Montreal facility come from the facility operator and the carriers present in that facility, since Reboot Monkey does not operate the network infrastructure itself. What Reboot Monkey does is install and patch the cabling in the customer's rack, so the physical work of connecting your equipment to the circuits ordered at the facility is handled by Reboot Monkey engineers rather than left to the customer or to a facility technician unfamiliar with your rack layout. This keeps the technical execution consistent with the rest of the deployment, under the same agreement and the same point of contact. For an IT Director or procurement manager evaluating a Montreal footprint, this structure also simplifies vendor management. Instead of tracking separate contracts, separate support queues and separate billing relationships for facility space and technical labor, there is one agreement covering the rack, the installation and the support work described above. When equipment needs attention, whether that is a scheduled migration, an unscheduled reboot, or an addition to the rack, the request goes to Reboot Monkey, which already knows the facility, the rack and the equipment in question. That continuity is the operational difference between colocation arranged as a single service and colocation assembled from separate facility and labor contracts.
How Reboot Monkey Works
These terms apply in every facility in Montreal where Reboot Monkey engineers work.
- Response: 4 hour standard incident response SLA, and a 15 minute premium response available where technicians are stationed on-site, as a paid add-on.
- Monitoring: 24/7 NOC monitoring across all facilities, covering IPMI, iDRAC, SNMP, temperature, power, network signals.
- Hardware: vendor-neutral technicians for Dell, HP, Cisco, Juniper and Arista equipment.
- Independence: independent from facility operators (not Equinix SmartHands, not NTT staff).
- One agreement: single provider across multiple facilities in the same city.
What does colocation cover in Montreal?
In Montreal, colocation through Reboot Monkey covers contracted rack space in a partner facility matched to the customer's power, network and access requirements, plus delivery, installation and ongoing support of the equipment under one agreement. It includes remote hands, smart hands, rack and stack, server migration, hardware monitoring and decommissioning, so physical tasks on the equipment are handled without the customer managing a separate facility relationship.
Can Reboot Monkey supply rack space in Montreal?
Yes. Reboot Monkey supplies colocation through partner facilities: rack space is contracted in the facility in Montreal that fits your power, network and access requirements, and Reboot Monkey delivers, installs and supports the equipment under one agreement. Colocation prices are quoted per facility and rack size.
How fast can Reboot Monkey respond in Montreal?
Incidents are handled under a 4 hour standard incident response SLA. There is also a 15 minute premium response available where technicians are stationed on-site, as a paid add-on. The tier that applies is set per site in the service agreement.
How do I get started with colocation in Montreal?
Send your rack size, power, network and access requirements through the contact form. Reboot Monkey proposes a facility in Montreal and quotes the rack space and the support; once agreed, the space is contracted and the equipment is delivered, installed and put under monitoring.
Place Equipment in a Montreal Facility
Describe your power, network and access requirements and Reboot Monkey will match them to a Montreal facility, then deliver, install and support the equipment under one agreement.
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