Hosting your rack in Tours: leaving the Paris region without going far

Tours solves one specific problem: having a second room that shares neither the power grid nor the risk area of the Paris region, while staying less than 5 ms from Paris. This page explains who that is useful to, and who it is not.

Our Tours site

Cogent Tours

Tier 2 design, connectivity from 1 to 10 Gbps, latency under 5 ms to Paris. The site is connected to our AS212815 network and gives access to the same services as our other locations: IP transit, BGP, anti-DDoS, France-IX and GNM-IX.

What Tours actually brings

Real geographical separation

Less than 5 ms from Paris, but another region, another power grid, another incident area. That is what a disaster recovery plan needs, and it is exactly what a second room in the Paris region does not give you.

Latency that stays Parisian

Under 5 ms, the difference is invisible for a website, an API or a business application. You get the geographical separation without paying for it in response time.

The Centre-Val de Loire region

If your business, your teams or your obligations tie you to the region, hosting locally saves you having to explain why your data makes a daily round trip to Paris.

When Tours is not the right choice

Tours is a 1 to 10 Gbps site, on a Tier 2 design. If you need 100 Gbps, Tier 3 level redundancy or Paris interconnection density, Paris is what you need, and we will tell you so. Tours is an excellent second site and a good first site for a regional need — it is not the site on which you build a very high throughput platform.

How much a rack in Tours costs

Same prices as on our other sites: from €24.17 excl. VAT per month (€29 incl.) for 1U and 50 W, €332.50 excl. VAT for a quarter rack, €533.33 excl. VAT for a half rack, €708.33 excl. VAT for a full rack. The first month is free on all three 1U offers.

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Frequently asked questions about colocation in Tours

Got a question that is not here?

Describe what you need and we will come back to you with a configuration and a price, not with a brochure.

Is Tours an active site?

Yes. The site is in production, connected to our network, and we are taking new orders there.

Can I make Tours my backup site for Paris?

That is what our customers use it for most often. Both sites are on our AS212815 network, the latency is under 5 ms, and you do not pay for IP transit twice.

What connectivity is available in Tours?

From 1 to 10 Gbps, with IP transit, BGP, baseline filtering against attacks, reinforced anti-DDoS on request, and access to the France-IX and GNM-IX exchange points. Beyond 10 Gbps, you need to look towards Paris.