We own the metal
Every host is bought outright, racked by our own hands, and kept for five years. Nothing is resold from someone else's cloud.
Company
A small company that sells servers
Echelon started in 2014 with four racks in Frankfurt and a rule we have not broken since: never ask a customer for a document we would not want to store ourselves.
- Founded
- 2014
- People
- 19
- Racks under management
- 214
- Autonomous system
- AS204915
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By the numbers
By the numbers
Instances running
41820
Site
42
Countries
31
Uptime, 24 months
99.987 %
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Timeline
Timeline
2014
Four racks in Frankfurt, then Amsterdam
Two engineers, a purchase order for eight Opteron hosts, and a decision not to ask customers for documents. The first instance was sold in November for €4 a month on a six-month term; Amsterdam followed six weeks later.
2015
Paris, London, New York
The first year of real growth. AS204915 is assigned and we start peering at AMS-IX and LINX rather than buying transit for everything.
2016
Zurich, and a written policy
The acceptable use policy is published in the form it still has today: two pages, plain language, no discretionary clauses. Riga and Bucharest open the same year.
2017
Profitable, and unfunded
We turn down a term sheet. Singapore and Tokyo open, along with Warsaw and Chișinău, and the fleet passes five thousand instances.
2018
Everything moves to EPYC
The Naples-generation refresh doubles per-socket density. Existing customers are moved to the new hardware at their old price, and renewal rates drop for the first time.
2019
Crypto becomes the only way to pay
Card processing is retired after a fourth acquirer demands customer identity documents. Payments move entirely to crypto, and the last stored personal data is deleted.
2020
Seven sites in one year
Demand from remote work and from people leaving the large clouds. Roubaix, Helsinki, Reykjavík, Seattle, Mexico City, Mumbai and Dubai all come online.
2021
The console is rewritten
Version 3 of the control panel ships: one code path for the web console, the REST API and the Terraform provider. Response times drop by two thirds.
2022
Power crisis, prices held
European electricity triples. We absorb it rather than repricing mid-term, take a loss for two quarters, and publish the numbers.
2023
Genoa, DDR5, Gen4 NVMe
The current hardware standard lands. Single-thread throughput rises 38% against the previous generation and storage latency halves.
2024
Ten years, forty-two sites
The anniversary is marked by cutting the twelve-month rate on every plan rather than by a press release.
2025
14 Tbit/s at the edge
Scrubbing capacity is doubled after a 1.9 Tbit/s attack on a customer in Amsterdam is absorbed without a dropped packet on neighbouring instances.
2026
Console v4
A full rebuild of the customer console, the fifteen-language site you are reading, and per-second resource graphs on every instance.
2014 — 2026 · 12 year
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How we operate
How we operate
Prices go down, not up
Hardware gets cheaper each generation. When it does, existing customers get the new rate at renewal without asking.
Support is engineers
There is no first line reading a script. The person answering the ticket has root on the hypervisor.
We say no
We turn down business that would compromise the network — and we say so publicly rather than quietly deplatforming people.
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Imprint
Imprint
- Legal entity
- Echelon Infrastructure OÜ
- Registered office
- Sepapaja 6, 15551 Tallinn, Estonia
- Autonomous system
- AS204915
- Founded
- 2014
- Tickets
- [email protected]
- Abuse and DMCA
- [email protected]
- Press
- [email protected]
- Peering
- [email protected]
We turn down business that would compromise the network — and we say so publicly rather than quietly deplatforming people.