Rack and Stack in Kansas City

Rack and stack is the physical part of a hardware deployment: unpacking new servers, switches and storage, mounting them in the rack and cabling them so they are ready for the customer's own configuration team. For organisations in Kansas City, the work happens inside data centers that other companies own and run. 1530 SWIFT - NOCIX stands on Swift St in Kansas City, and the building is run by its operator, not by Reboot Monkey. Reboot Monkey is a third-party datacenter services operator. It sells rack space, IP transit, leased IP addresses, network connectivity and data-centre hardware, together with the services that deliver, install and support them. It is not a hosting company and does not own any data center, which means a rack and stack job is scoped around the customer's equipment and the customer's chosen facility, not around a product Reboot Monkey hosts itself. Access arrangements for a given job are therefore agreed with that operator as part of planning, before an engineer is dispatched.

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

Rack and stack work covers cabling, labelling and power-on checks. Each job is scoped around the hardware the customer is deploying, and quotes are on request because the price depends on the customer and the size of the job.

A typical request moves through these stages:

Rack and stack is rarely a standalone event. New hardware usually arrives alongside a network order, a migration or a change to an existing rack, and Reboot Monkey handles the physical work and the connectivity under one supplier. Because it sells the network for the rack as well as the installation, the cross connect order and the cabling in the rack are coordinated by the same party instead of being split between several vendors.

A second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer is named as backup for every customer site. If the primary engineer is unavailable, the work does not wait for a new person to be found and briefed from scratch.

Reboot Monkey is vendor-neutral. It installs the hardware the customer has chosen and is not tied to selling one manufacturer's equipment or to hosting the result on its own infrastructure. As of 2026, Reboot Monkey's field engineers work in 190 countries and more than 400 locations, so a Kansas City deployment can be run to the same working method as the same customer's deployments elsewhere.

After the job, the customer can use the same engineers for follow-up work. Remote hands and smart hands cover later changes, and hardware monitoring by the Reboot Monkey NOC covers the servers and network equipment once they are in service.

These terms apply in every facility in Kansas City 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 deploying across several United States sites can request the same installation scope in other cities. Rack and stack is also available in [Los Angeles](/en/rack-and-stack/united-states/los-angeles/), [New York](/en/rack-and-stack/united-states/new-york/), [Ashburn](/en/rack-and-stack/united-states/ashburn/), [Chicago](/en/rack-and-stack/united-states/chicago/), [Dallas](/en/rack-and-stack/united-states/dallas/) and [Denver](/en/rack-and-stack/united-states/denver/). A multi-site rollout can be planned as one programme with the work in each city carried out under that facility operator's own site rules.

New hardware in Kansas City often needs a place to live and sometimes replaces equipment that is being moved. Customers who still need rack space for the deployment can arrange [Colocation in Kansas City](/en/colocation/united-states/kansas-city/) alongside the installation. Where existing equipment is moving into the new racks from another site, [Data Center Migration in Kansas City](/en/data-center-migration/united-states/kansas-city/) covers moving equipment between racks, rooms or facilities.