Log into the Support Center–

Under your “Client Profile,” click on “Payment Methods,” then you will have the option to “Add Credit Card”.

Once you have a credit card on file, go to “View Services” under the “Billing & Services” option. Click on “Authorize Auto-Charge” on each service you want to auto bill.

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In the event of a billing dispute you must pay the disputed amount by the due date. Once the dispute is resolved, your account will be credited.

If any chargebacks occur on your credit card or PayPal account we reserve the right to immediately terminate your service and account without notice.

It is important that you know that we pro-rate all customers to the 10th of the month. You get invoiced on the 1st so you have plenty of time to review your invoice and get payment from your customers. If one of your customers fail to pay, you need to let us know so we can remove that service from your account before the renewal period. We shut off servers based on outstanding invoices, even if some of the services were paid on time. Full payment will be necessary before services will be restored if you wait have been shut off.

New clients are billed for their first month’s service on the day the service is ordered. Once the invoice is paid, the service will then be sent off for completion.

The following month you will be billed a pro-rated partial amount to the 10th of the next month. Invoices will be generated and sent out on the 1st of each month and payment is due by the 10th of the month. If payment is not received by the 15th, your service will be suspended until upon receipt (regardless of payment method). If it still is not paid by the 20th your service and account will be canceled and any data on the hard drive will be lost. In no event shall Joe’s Datacenter staff be responsible for loss of data.

PAYMENT METHODS:

ADVANCE PAYMENT:

You can pay one month in advance by sending a PayPal payment to [email protected]. The system will automatically add the credit to your account and when you are invoiced it will use whatever credit you have against the invoice. If you want to pay in advance, but have questions, please e-mail [email protected].

An e-mail requesting payment is generated every two days that your bill is unpaid. We do not email, telephone or send postal mail notifying about disconnections. It is your responsibility to make sure your bill is paid. A late fee of $5 will be issued to your account for invoices past due and an additional $5 every 5 days thereafter until the bill is paid.

Due to the nature of this business, we do not offer refunds for any reason or under any circumstance.

We offer KVM over IP devices that are available on a first come first serve basis for dealing with advanced problems.

We give customers up to 24 hours to use it free of charge. This is handy in situations where customers do not want to give up their passwords, complex firewalls or networking configurations that are better fixed by the customer.

Our on-site technicians are trained to deal with any problem that may arise from network issues to hardware problems. They are also trained to deal with a variety of software issues and making sure you can access your machine remotely.

Once our customer has access to the machine they are responsible for software support and maintenance.

If you decide to cancel your colocation service, you must first fill out the cancellation form request. Cancellation request must be sent before the end of your renewal billing period day. We package colo equipment in house and charge a labor fee and packing materials fee per item shipped. We will send you the dimensions and weight of the package(s) so that you can purchase a pre-printed shipping label(s) yourself. Once the packing/handling invoice is paid, your package(s) will be approved for pickup.

• Complimentary services provided with our colo services are reboots, OS Reloads, and IP KVM usage. After the initial install, certain requests may be considered remote hands on which we charge $40 an hour. Examples for remote hands on would be replacing parts or troubleshooting customer hardware.
• We can store replacement parts for you to have on hand as needed since they can go bad from normal usage. You will be charged $40 an hour for remote hands on for us to replace your equipment.
• We do not sell or order parts for our customers because that is your responsibility.
• If you order parts online and have them shipped to us, we need to be able to identify which package(s) are yours so you must send us the tracking number(s) and day/time of your package(s) arrival. Also, your packaging label(s) can have Attn: (Your Name) on them. We have packages arrive all the time and have no idea who they are for because no one informed us of the arrival and or no client name was displayed.

We require that new data center installs be scheduled at least 24 hours in advance. After the initial install has been completed, you may request access at any time using the support/billing ticket system. We do ask for one hour notice (in case we’re at lunch, etc.)

Case Requirements for Mid-Tower:
– Must be sold as a “Mid-Tower” or a smaller type such as a “Mini-Tower”
– Maximum Height: 18″ inch / 45.72 cm
– Maximum Width: 8″ inch / 20.32 cm
– Maximum Length: 20″ inch / 50.80 cm
– No more than 8 Expansion Card Slots
– No more than 8 Internal 3.5″ Drive Bays
– No more than 5 External 5.25″ Drive Bays

Case Requirements for Full-Tower:
– Must be sold as a “Full-Tower” or a smaller type. Server cases sold as “Super Tower” or “Pedestal” are NOT allowed.
– Maximum Height: 22″ inch / 55.88 cm
– Maximum Width: 9″ inch / 22.86 cm
– Maximum Length: 22″ inch / 55.88 cm
– No more than 10 Expansion Card Slots
– No more than 10 Internal 3.5″ Drive Bays
– No more than 7 External 5.25″ Drive Bays

Dual Power: Full-Tower colocation can only have dual power connections not Mid-Tower.

The following are our procedures and or items that can be included when shipping your colocation equipment to us:

1. PACKING
– Double box everything.
– Use foam inserts, bubble wrap or air bags to pack any device. Please do not use peanuts because they build up static charges.
– Have all equipment secure inside the case or box. Screwless cases have been known to come apart and expansion cards or hard drives fall out.

2. PROVIDE RAILS
You must provide rails for your rack-mount server(s). If you do not, you will be charged a $50 setup fee per server. If you have a non-standard rack-mount server, it will not be installed until we get the non-standard rails from you.

3. EQUIPMENT INVENTORY LIST
This list will be on your account and is a record of your equipment we have in our facility. All of your equipment needs to be listed with Manufacturer, Model/ Serial#, Description, IP Address, os for each server and if its for the current install or replacement parts.

4. REPLACEMENT PARTS
We can store replacement parts for you to have on hand as needed and the following is the allocated storage space we provide you:
– Mid-Tower, Full-Tower, Single Rack Space Colo plans: will be provided 1 small locker with dimensions that are 12” x 12” x 11”.
– Quarter, Half & Full Cabinet Colo plans will be provided 1 large locker with dimensions that are are 33” x 18” x 11”.

You will be charged a $40 an hour fee for remote hands on for us to replace your equipment.

Our Facility Address:
Attn: (Your Name or Ticket #)
Joe’s Datacenter
1325 Tracy Ave
Kansas City, MO 64106

We will provide your IP allocation soon after your new order placement has been received so you can pre-configure your server(s). We also provide the network drop cables.

REQUIRED:
Packages arrival- You must send us the tracking #(s) and day/time of your package(s) arrival. If your equipment shipment(s) arrive without notifying us it could delay your deployment.

Once the equipment arrives please allow 24-48 hours for the technician to unpack, inspect equipment, setup and deploy your service(s).

• For single server colocation we provide standard 120V power.
• Rack mount servers that require dual power will have an extra charge.
• Servers that pull more than 2 amps will be charged for the extra power.

Click here to place an order for our colocation packages–

You can ship your equipment or you can do an on-site install at our facility. You are required to send us the tracking number(s) and day/time of your package(s) arrival so it is deployed in a timely manner. If your equipment has not been damaged during shipment, equipment meets our requirements, no outstanding invoices or no billing adjustments are needed we will put your colo server(s) online within 24-48 hours of arrival. You will be notified once we have all of your equipment setup and online.

We can load any Linux based operating system as long as you can provide the ISO download file.

We also have Microsoft Licenses for lease on the order form as an upgrade option.

We can configure custom partitions during the setup or hook a KVM over IP unit up for customers to remotely do their own installs.

After ordering the service, simply submit a ticket with any specific details needed to configure your service.

We do not offer custom prices or custom hardware configurations other than what is listed as in stock.

We do have upgrade options for ram, hard drives, ip’s, bandwidth, and operating systems specific to each server on the respective order form. Click here for a list of all dedicated servers we offer.

We do tests on all hardware before deployment and keep spare parts on hand for each server. If for some reason we do not have an identical part, we will upgrade to the next best compatible part that we have in stock at no extra charge. We always have enough parts to fix any hardware that might go bad. Customers may request that we do additional hardware tests on the server, which we do at no charge.

• Free Reboots
• Free OS Reloads
• MRTG Network Graphs
• 24/7 Hardware and Network Support
• Setup in 24/48 Hours

OS Reloads are completely free! Just submit a ticket and a technician will help you as soon as possible.

We can install upgrades at any time after you purchase the service. We schedule a time at your convenience to take the server down for updates and upgrades. If a different server is wanted, we can get the new one ready and give the customer time to move data over before taking the old server offline. As our customer, we try and make it simple for you to upgrade your existing service or move to an entirely new server.

Current Bandwidth Connections

• Hurricane Electric
• Cogent
• KCIX

Test our connections with our Speed test files and Network looking glass.

We currently have multiple bandwidth providers that ride fiber into the datacenter and terminate at our equipment. Utilizing multiple edge and distribution switches we are able to maintain 99.9% or better network uptime. We have recently upgraded the backbone of our network to utilize redundant fiber paths to all switches and replaced older equipment so we can provide IPv6 service to our customers. We keep spare replacement parts on site for all network equipment as well as doing nightly backups of switch configurations.

Internal Network Monitoring

• We have off network ping tests and get paged with the notifications.
• Audible Alerts to technicians inside the DC when problems occur.
• Monitors on the walls showing live network statistics such as a live network weather map, graphs showing Mbps, PPS, Switch health, DC temperature monitors and more.
• We also do thresholds monitoring for early alerting before a problem affects service.

Customer Monitoring

• Customers have access to MRTG network graphs for each of their network ports.
• Accounts can be setup to be notified before going over their allotted bandwidth amount as well.

Abuse complaints are taken very seriously by our staff.  As a reseller, you are responsible for screening your clients and to make sure they do not violate our Terms Of Service or our Acceptable Use Policies. It is your responsibility to work with us if an abuse issue occurs. If you do not, all of your services could be affected. If we receive an abuse notification for one of your services we will notify you.  This could also lead to a suspension of that service. If you fail to respond or work with us on it we may terminate all of your services. If you fail to get rid of clients that are in violation, your entire account could be terminated.

It is important that you know that we pro-rate all customers to the 10th of the month. You get invoiced on the 1st so you have plenty of time to review your invoice and get payment from your customers. If one of your customers fail to pay, you need to let us know so we can remove that service from your account before the renewal period. We shut off servers based on outstanding invoices, even if some of the services were paid on time. Full payment will be necessary before services will be restored if you wait have been shut off.

Yes, resellers are permitted and we give a 10% discount once you have 5 or more servers online with us. If you plan on buying in bulk then please email our sales department at [email protected]

We limit both network and physical access to all of our network equipment. We use private vlans for all customers and give them their own private subnet. This allows for the highest level of network security for the customer. We do not provide firewall services, but this can be done at a software level or a firewall device can be provided for colo equipment.

Before getting into the facility, you must have keycard/pin access, biometrics and keys to get through the steel doors and deadbolts.

Each entrance to the datacenter has multiple cameras. These cameras record and are remotely monitored.

Please check out the live datacenter camera.

Click to go to the Joe’s Datacenter Privacy Policy.

We currently do not offer software support, as this is a unmanaged service. You, the customer will provide all maintenance, upgrades, patches, and security. We recommend the following sites for finding additional information that may help solve any software problems:

Web Hosting Talk
Good community of hosting experts, you can also find companies that provide management for you.
Directadmin Support
This forum site is specifically for users having issues with Directadmin software.
cPanel Support
This forum site is specifically for users having issues with cPanel software.

If you are unable to find a solution to your problem, you may consider getting a management company to help you. Here is a list of some good management companies.

DC1 only has dedicated servers. It is built with a mixture of mid-tower and rack mount servers. The facility is built with hot and cold rows to provide better cooling. We have over 25 tons of cooling coming from three different units with ducting into each of the cold rows. We use temperature, humidity, and power probes to monitor all environmental aspects of our datacenter.

Come View the Virtual Tour–

DC2 only has colocation servers. It is built for a mixture of mid-tower and rack mount servers. Just like Datacenter 1, the facility is built with hot and cold rows. We have over 20 tons of cooling coming from two different units with ducting into each of the cold rows. This room also has work benches, a computer station, and wifi for customers on site. We monitor all environmental aspects of our datacenter.

Come View the Virtual Tour–

Joe’s Datacenter is located at 1325 Tracy Ave in downtown Kansas City, MO. We selected this building because of its excellent variety of bandwidth providers and redundant power grids. This building also allows for a mixture of chilled water and split A/C systems for better redundancy.

We have built out two facilities in our new building.

Take a look at this Map–

• Customer VPS Control Panel
• MRTG Network Graphs
• 24/7 Support
• Setup in 24/48 Hours