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Who is Dacentec?
Dacentec is a data center services provider that offers colocation, dedicated servers, and related infrastructure services from its facility in North Carolina.
- Colocation services with rack space, power, cooling, and network connectivity
- Dedicated servers for hosted infrastructure and application workloads
- Data center facility in North Carolina with redundant power and cooling systems
- Network services with multiple upstream carriers and BGP-based connectivity
- Support for enterprise hosting, backup, and lab or test environments
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More About Dacentec
Dacentec operates a data center facility in North Carolina that provides infrastructure services for enterprises, service providers, and institutional users that prefer hosted or hybrid deployment models over fully on-premises (on-prem) environments. Its offerings center on colocation services and dedicated servers, through which customers deploy compute, storage, and networking resources while relying on Dacentec for power, cooling, and physical security. These services support use cases such as production application hosting, Disaster Recovery (DR), backup environments, and development or test beds that need predictable resource availability.
The colocation services (data center infrastructure) include options for rack units, partial cabinets, and full cabinets, with power configurations aligned to typical enterprise equipment densities. Dacentec supplies redundant power feeds, Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems, and generator backup to keep customer equipment running during utility outages. Cooling infrastructure is designed to maintain data hall temperature and humidity within ranges appropriate for server and storage hardware. Customers maintain control over their own hardware stack while using Dacentec’s facility and operations as an extension of their data center footprint.
Dedicated server offerings (hosted infrastructure) allow customers to consume physical servers hosted and managed at the Dacentec facility instead of shipping and installing their own hardware. This model supports workloads such as web applications, databases, virtualization clusters, and backup repositories. Customers typically receive remote management access, enabling Operating System (OS) installation, configuration, and monitoring without needing to visit the facility. This approach is relevant for organizations that want single-tenant hardware without the overhead of operating a physical data center.
On the network side, Dacentec provides IP transit and connectivity services (network services), usually based on multiple upstream carriers and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing for path diversity. This enables customers to announce their own IP address space or use provider-assigned ranges, with routing policies that can be aligned to latency, redundancy, or cost objectives. The facility is connected through redundant network paths to reduce exposure to single points of failure. These capabilities are used by enterprises that need consistent connectivity for public-facing services, Virtual Private Network (VPN) termination, or private interconnection with other sites.
From a marketplace taxonomy perspective, Dacentec fits within data center colocation, dedicated hosting, and network services categories. It is relevant for infrastructure planners evaluating options across on-prem data centers, colocation facilities, and cloud infrastructure. Organizations can use Dacentec either as a primary hosting location or as a secondary site for backup and recovery, depending on workload placement strategies and connectivity requirements.
Our description of Dacentec. Updated February 2026.
