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Remote Hands

Remote Hands Services

Immediate Assistance, Around the Clock Support for Your Data Center Needs

24/7 expedited · NBD standard · scheduled tasks

Service overview

Remote Hands Service Levels

Our Remote Hands service offers a range of service level options designed to provide timely, efficient support for your data center operations. While Remote Hands is invaluable for immediate, on-site tasks such as equipment resets, cable swaps, and visual inspections, it's important to note that this service is not intended to replace comprehensive maintenance contracts or to serve as a stand-in for professional services projects. Instead, it complements these services by offering quick, on-demand assistance to address urgent issues or perform routine tasks, ensuring your infrastructure maintains optimal performance without delay.

Tier 1

Expedited Service

  • Priority Handling: Guaranteed highest priority with rapid mobilization to address your most urgent issues.
  • 24/7 Availability: Our team is ready to respond to your needs around the clock, ensuring that critical support is always just a call away.
  • Ideal For: Critical downtime issues where immediate resolution is paramount to your business operations.
  • Billing Policy: This service is always billable due to the premium, immediate nature of the response required.

Tier 2

Standard / NBD

  • Balanced Response: Perfectly suited for routine issues that require professional attention within the next business day.
  • Business Hours Support: Services are delivered during normal business hours, offering a cost-effective solution for standard operational needs.
  • Courtesy Services: May be eligible for Netrouting's Courtesy Remote Hands, providing value and support for standard maintenance tasks.
  • Ideal For: Planned maintenance or non-urgent issues that can be addressed within the next business day framework.

Tier 3

Scheduled

  • Business Hours Execution: Scheduled tasks are performed during standard business hours, with options to accommodate work outside of these hours at premium rates.
  • Advance Planning: Allows for thorough preparation and scheduling, ensuring that resources are optimally allocated to your task.
  • Cost-Effective: By planning in advance, enjoy more economical rates for tasks that are essential but not urgent.
  • Ideal For: Upgrades, installations, and other planned tasks that can be scheduled to fit both your timeline and budget.
  • Flexibility: Offers the greatest flexibility in scheduling and planning for your non-immediate data center needs.

Extending your team

Remote Hands Support: Extending Your IT Team

Netrouting's Remote Hands service provides a wide array of in-data center tasks designed to support your operations efficiently and effectively. From intricate cabling to advanced troubleshooting, our skilled technicians are equipped to handle your needs with precision and care. This suite of services ensures that your infrastructure remains robust, secure, and well-maintained, minimizing downtime and maximizing performance.

Service catalogue

Eight remote-hands service categories

  • icon ds cabling Cabling Services Expert handling of power, copper, and fiber in-rack cabling between equipment to ensure optimal connectivity and organization.
  • icon ds rack stack Rack & Stack Precise installation and setup of servers and network equipment within your rack space, following your exact specifications.
  • icon ds troubleshooting Troubleshooting / Health Checks Detailed server issue diagnostics, hardware health assessments, and crash cart connections to swiftly address and resolve any concerns.
  • icon ds connectivity Connectivity Verification Comprehensive checks on cross connects, including light level readings and cable swaps to guarantee stable and reliable network connections.
  • icon ds access Vendor Supervision Coordination and oversight of third-party vendors and consultants, ensuring that all activities comply with data center standards and security protocols.
  • icon ds inventory auditing Inventory Management Thorough auditing of your equipment inventory and meticulous processing of inbound shipments, keeping your assets organized and accounted for.
  • icon ds media management Media Management Assistance with USB installations, live boot media setups, and IPMI configurations to support your software and operating system needs.
  • icon ds storagemanage Customer Storage Solutions Secure storage services for your inbound shipments, providing a safe and accessible space for your equipment and materials.

Global footprint

Deployed in 10+ datacenters across three continents

Pick the location closest to your users — or to your existing infrastructure. Every location runs the same hardware, same network, same NOC.

The Netrouting Guarantee

Your customer bill of rights

The 12 commitments that Netrouting upholds for all their products, locations and customers are exactly the same. Whether you have a server running in one of our locations and you pay on a monthly basis, or you have a server in one of our locations and you have a 3-year contract, the 12 commitments remain the same. And if we fail to meet one of these 12 commitments, you are entitled to a service credit that will be applied to your next invoice.

  • N+1 power & cooling

    N+1 power & cooling redundancy in all of our locations. A failure of a single UPS, CRAC units, transformers etc. is not supposed to affect your servers.

  • Enterprise hardware, built for 24×7

    We use only the Enterprise Grade hardware, same hardware as Data Centers around the world use. Best quality servers (Dell, HPE, Supermicro) burned in before we start to use them for our customers. No consumer grade hardware, no white box servers, no used servers in our Data Centers.

  • Hardware replacement under warranty

    For servers under warranty, a failed disk, PSU, NIC, RAM module or mother board will be replaced within the SLA defined for the affected SKU (e.g. within 1 hour during business hours and 4 hours after business hours for on-site service) - no charge for customer supplied parts for covered failures.

  • Redundant PSUs on Edge-Pro and above

    Servers of the Edge-Pro SKU and above are equipped with 2 redundant PSUs each. Both of the PSUs are connected to the A+B feeds. Therefore a PSU failure does not result in a server failure which can then be used for maintenance.

  • Redundant edge, core and ToR network

    Our network has full redundancy throughout ToR switches, core, edge routers and even BGP transit network on multiple Tier-1 carriers.

  • Dual uplinks on Edge-Pro and above

    Dual NICs for uplinks on ToRs on Edge-Pro and above servers. These can be bonded (LACP) or active/standby.

  • Always-on DDoS protection

    Edge scrubbing for all IP addressed at Edge facilities (no additional charge, no upcharge traffic cost after attack occurs). We have multi-Tbps of headroom at the edge so we are multiple times larger than any single observed attack.

  • Right to credits on SLA violation

    We guarantee a 99.997% uptime on our network. In the event that we fail to meet this SLA, we grant you service credits on a per incident basis. These are applied after you have logged the credit in the appropriate section of the contract within the specified time frame. The credit will then be applied to your next invoice. No long winded legal battle or per incident haggling.

  • 1-hour ticket guarantee, 24/7

    Assign human to investigate (phone, ticket, chat) within 1hr of receipt (24/7), and perform hardware fault triage within 30 minutes during business hours.

  • Rapid Deployment Guarantee

    For stock items, we guarantee that we will ship within one business day. If we fail to meet this commitment in full for any item, then you will receive a full refund for the associated setup fee. For custom items, we guarantee that we will meet the hand-quoted ETAs provided to you for completion of your build.

  • Industry-leading panel + automation stack

    A fully featured out of the box panel / automation stack. A full API / BMC out of band access (bmc) for full automation and remote management. Provision servers, reboot servers, mount an ISO to test software, remotely log in to watch the boot process and more – all included with no cost for 'premium-tier' upgrades. All access provided on day 1 of opening an account.

  • Transparent ToS, no surprise egress

    We promise no price increases during the term of contract and no hidden egress charges. What you read in the Terms of Service (written in plain English, not as a law suit ready contract) is what you get.

Built for production

Why teams stay with Netrouting

We connect you to the Internet using network engineers (and not order takers) and hardware and infrastructure that is built to last, so we can pick up where you left off when you need us.

  • Expert-Level Support Our staff is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to handle network administration and systems management issues as they occur.
  • Scalable Solutions Build whatever depth or breadth your infrastructure needs and then scale as required.
  • Enhanced Security Enable 2-factor authentication and also limit by IP address from the control panel to secure your account.
  • Cost-Efficient Infrastructure You will always receive the best value from your investment as you will be optimized for budget without any compromise on Quality.

Get a quote

Tell us what you need

A real engineer reviews every quote — typical response within 1 hour during business hours, 4 hours after-hours.

  • Reviewed by a real engineer
  • 1-hour ticket guarantee, 24/7
  • No obligation, no auto-enrolment