Rack and Stack in Hamburg

New servers, switches and storage arrive on a pallet and need to become working equipment in a rack. Rack and stack is the physical part of that job: installing, mounting and cabling the new hardware. Reboot Monkey is a third-party datacenter services operator. It does not own or run data centres, so the work in Hamburg takes place inside buildings that other companies own and operate. Portus/IPHH HH2 (Wendenstrasse 408) stands on Wendenstraße in Hamburg.

For a CTO, IT director or procurement manager, the practical question is who handles the hardware once it reaches the building and what the customer receives when the work is done. The sections below answer that for Hamburg: what the service covers, how a request moves from first contact to finished installation, and how connectivity is handled alongside the hardware.

Data centres in Hamburg, ordered by the number of networks present:

A rack and stack job in Hamburg starts with the customer's instruction: the hardware to be installed, the rack it belongs in and the cabling it needs. Reboot Monkey engineers then mount the equipment, run and label the cabling, and carry out power-on checks. Quotes are on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job.

The request moves through the same steps each time:

Reboot Monkey sells the network for the rack as well as the labour to fit it. It orders the cross connects and carrier circuits from the facility operator and the carriers present in the facility, and its engineers install and patch the cabling in the customer's rack. That keeps hardware installation and connectivity under one provider, instead of leaving the customer to coordinate between a hardware supplier, the operator and a carrier. In Hamburg, NorthC Hamburg stands on Süderstrasse. Where a job involves fibre links, a fibre inspection scope and cleaning kit are available on request. Rack and stack is also one part of a wider service set: remote hands, smart hands, server migration, data center decommissioning, ITAD and hardware monitoring by the Reboot Monkey NOC can follow the installation under the same provider.

These terms apply in every facility in Hamburg where Reboot Monkey engineers work.

The data centres we work in hold their own certifications, such as ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 9001. Ask us for the certificate of your site.

Customers with equipment in more than one German city can request installation work elsewhere in the country. A deployment in the Frankfurt area, for example, can be arranged through Rack and Stack in Frankfurt.

Beyond Germany, Reboot Monkey's coverage as of 2026 is that its field engineers work in 190 countries and more than 400 locations.

Installing hardware is often one step in a larger deployment. A customer who also needs rack space in the city can look at Colocation in Hamburg. Reboot Monkey sells rack space, IP transit and leased IP addresses inside data centres that other companies own and run, so space, network and installation can be arranged together.

Once the equipment is live, hardware monitoring by the Reboot Monkey NOC covers the customer's servers and network equipment, and remote hands and smart hands cover later physical and technical tasks in the rack.