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Colo Crossing (colocrossing.com) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on 2019.
Packet.com (packet.com) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on 2018.

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colocrossing.com logo
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👉 Total Reviews: 9
🙌 Average Rating: 2.8 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 2
👎 Bad Reviews: 7
👈 Official Responses: 0 2.8 / 10VISIT WEBSITE

9 user reviews		packet.com logo
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👉 Total Reviews: 5
🙌 Average Rating: 3 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 1
👎 Bad Reviews: 4
👈 Official Responses: 0 3 / 10

5 user reviews
 
Colo Crossing
325 Delaware Avenue, Suite 300,
Buffalo, NY 14202
US
Part of Deluxe Corporation
colocrossing.com		Packet.com
30 Vesey St, Fl 9th
New York, NY 10007
US

packet.com is inactive, but is redirected to equinix.com
packet.com
📧 Emailsales@c...support@p...
☎ Phone800-518-9716(212) 933-9785
Ranks🏆 Alexa Rating 270,760▲31,978 (lower is better)
📈 Domains 25,351▼-113 (higher is better)
Alexa Rank in IN 57,754
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 35/49🔗 Links 99,542		🏆 Alexa Rating 283,141▲40,379 (lower is better)
📈 Domains 1,440▼-2 (higher is better)
Alexa Rank in US 190,025
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 50/46🔗 Links 41,428
Languages en-US en-US
📄 InfoFounded in 2003, with over 15 years of experience in the hosting field, ColoCrossing provides services on cutting-edge technology.

They provide the following web hosting services: Dedicated Servers;Colocation;Managed Hosting;
All dedicated servers are configured on Intel Xeon processors and speed port can reach up to 1 Gbps. Servers run on 10 TB bandwidth, which is less than what many companies in the hosting industry offer. These servers run on multiple OS configurations. Read full review		UPDATE 2020: Packet was acquired by Equinix in March. To help make our vision for global, interconnected bare metal a reality, we've rebranded Packet as Equinix Metal and introduced new locations and features. Packet, makes infrastructure a competitive advantage for the leading companies of the world with globally-available, developer-friendly bare metal and a neutral, interconnected ecosystem of networks, software, and solution partners. Our mission is to protect, connect, and power the [...] Read full review
📡 Established20032014
🏁 Site speedVery fast, load time 0.9 seconds 84% sites are slower
SEO Links count 147		Very fast, load time 0.9 seconds 84% sites are slower
SEO Links count 58
📣 Social Media
📣 Social Media
🔃 User Shares
colocrossing.com Iconcolocrossing
Started from: August, 2009
  • Tweets: 3,053
  • Followers: 1,690
  • Friends: 445
  • Last activity:
https://twitter.com/packethost
Started from: August, 2020
  • Tweets: 0
  • Followers: 8
  • Friends: 0
  • Last activity:
colocrossing.com IconColoCrossing
  • Likes:
  • People talking about them:
  • Last activity:

https://www.facebook.com/getpacket/ (inactive)
ColoCrossing
  • Followers: 77
  • Entity type: Privately Held
  • Founded: 2004
  • Employee Count: 11-50
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
https://www.linkedin.com/company/packet-host/
Colo Crossing Blog
  • Blog Posts: 140
  • Blog added on: Feb, 2012
  • Language: en-us
  • Last written post:

https://www.packet.net/blog/
  • Blog Posts: 40
  • First post from: May, 2016
  • Language: en
  • Last written post:

🔧 Dedicated Hosting - 3/3
💡 Plan NameBronze [Linux/Windows]t1.small.x86 [Linux/Windows]
💰 Price$ 59.95/mo.$ 50.40/mo.
💿 Disk Space500 GB80 GB SSD
📶 Data Transfer10 TBunmetered
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimitedunlimited
🆓 Free Domain00
💪 CPUIntel Xeon E3-12404 Physical Cores @ 2.4 GHz (1 x Atom C2550)
🔋 RAM16 GB8 GB
📌 Dedicated IPs01
🔨 Control Panel
🌏 Server LocationUnited States
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Standard servers are provisioned in 24 hours or less. Each server's base configuration is upgradable. All servers come with access to our proprietary management portal which provides remote reboot capability, bandwidth usage statistics, device overview, live inventory and much more!

cPanel [...]		INFO (mouse over)PRICE: $0.07 per hour
Network 2.5Gbps Network (1 × 2.5Gbps)

We've designed our server configurations to power the most common & demanding workloads at unbeatable prices.


Locations

EWR1 (New York Metro)
SJC1 (Sunnyvale)
AMS1 (Amsterdam)
NRT1 (Tokyo)

OS Support
Custom [...]
📅 Date PlanSep 2019Aug 2018
💡 Plan NameSilver [Linux/Windows]m2.xlarge.x86 [Linux/Windows]
💰 Price$ 79.95/mo.$ 1,440.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space1000 GB120 GB SSD
📶 Data Transfer10 TBunmetered
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimitedunlimited
🆓 Free Domain00
💪 CPUIntel Xeon E3-124028 Physical Cores @ 2.2 GHz (2 x Xeon Gold 5120)
🔋 RAM32 GB384 MB
📌 Dedicated IPs01
🔨 Control Panel
🌏 Server LocationUnited States
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Network Ports 1 Gbps
Hard Drive 1 TB HDD
Bandwidth 10 TB
CPU Intel Xeon E3-1240

Location available:
Chicago:Dupont Fabros
Dallas:TierPoint
Buffalo:325 Delaware
Los Angeles:Suite 901

Standard servers are provisioned in 24 hours or less. Each server's base configuration is upgradable. All servers [...]		INFO (mouse over)PRICE: $2 per hour
DDR4 ECC RAM
Network 20Gbps Bonded Network (2 × 10Gbps w/ LACP)
Storage 3.8 TB of NVMe Flash
Storage 120 GB of Redundant SSD (2 × 120 GB in RAID 1)

We've designed our server configurations to power the most common & demanding workloads at unbeatable [...]
📅 Date PlanSep 2019Aug 2018
💡 Plan NameGold [Linux/Windows]c3.small.x86
💰 Price$ 199.95/mo.$ 0.50/mo.
💿 Disk Space1000 GBunlimited HDD 10000 RPM
📶 Data Transfer10 TBunmetered
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimitedunlimited
🆓 Free Domain0 
🔨 Control Panel
🌏 Server LocationUnited States
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Network Ports 1 Gbps
Bandwidth 10 TB
RAM 32 GB
Hard Drive 1 TB HDD
CPU 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2660v2

Location available:
Chicago:Dupont Fabros
Dallas:TierPoint
Buffalo:325 Delaware
Los Angeles:Suite 901

Standard servers are provisioned in 24 hours or less. Each server's base configuration is [...]		INFO (mouse over)Most people don't fall in love with servers, but this one may change your mind. Featuring an Intel Xeon E-2278G processor with an embedded UHD graphic 630 processor, this machine strikes the perfect balance for cloud native, CPU intensive, or graphics heavy workloads.

Where else can you get a [...]
📅 Date PlanSep 2019Jul 2020
🔧 Colocation Hosting - 1/0
💡 Plan NameSingle Server Standard Configuration-
💰 Price$ 59.00/mo.-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
📌 Dedicated IPs29-
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)RACK SPACE 1U
FURTHER CUSTOMIZATION Available
IPV4 SPACE /29
NETWORK UPLINK Default 1 Gbps Port, up to 10 Gbps Port
TRANSFER 10 Mbps
POWER 1 Amp 120V Power		-
📅 Date PlanSep 2019-
💻 Supported Operating Systems
  • Linux/Windows
  • Linux/Windows
📤 List of products
  • Dedicated Hosting
  • Colocation Hosting
  • Dedicated Hosting
✍️ Support Options
  • Email
  • Help Desk
  • Phone / Toll-Free
  • Live Chat
  • Available 24/7
  • 0 WHTop support responses
  • Email
  • Help Desk
  • Phone / Toll-Free
  • Live Chat
  • Available 24/7
  • 0 WHTop support responses
💰 Payment Options
  • Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
  • PayPal
  • Wire Transfer
  • Check Payments
  • Money Order
  • Bitcoin
  • Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
  • PayPal
👪 Last positive / negative customers review
 
mrizzo (mike@h...)
on 📆 Feb 03, 2012
Good ColoCrossing Experience
😁 I've work for a company in the health care field that uses ColoCrossing for dedicated servers and managed firewall services. We have equipment in two of their datacenters, both Chicago and Dallas. Our experience has been excellent over the years [...]

-anonymous- (-hidden-)
on 📆 Nov 25, 2021
😠 Please do not buy anything from them. This is unsolicited mail sender network. Been trying to report their SPAM to them for weeks trough SPAMCop.com and directly to abuse@ mail and no action was taken.

-anonymous- (-hidden-)
on 📆 Aug 25, 2018
😁 Packet.net is a provider that delivers dedicated compute within minutes - the network connection is fantastic, They have a good selection of configurations and locations available, the sign up process involves requiring linkedin or something to [...]

-anonymous- (-hidden-)
on 📆 Aug 22, 2019
😠 The first year Packet servers functioned fine and it seems to have been the decent choice to move over from Digital Ocean to bare metal. Recently however Packet started more and more doing maintenance during office hours, even shutting down entire [...]

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