Selectel

Selectel Ltd. (Russian: Сеть дата-центров ООО "Селектел") is a Russian Internet hosting provider. It was founded in 2008, and it currently owns and operates six data centers in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the Leningrad region. According to a 2014 study conducted by iKS-Consulting, Selectel was the 5th largest data center operator in Russia in terms of the number of commercial server racks.[1]

Selectel Ltd.
TypeLLC
IndustryTelecommunication
Founded2008
HeadquartersSt. Petersburg, Russia
Key people
Lev Binzumovich Leviev, CEO
Websiteselectel.com

History

The company was founded in 2008 by Vyacheslav Mirilashvil and Lev Binzumovich Leviev, former investors of the Russian social network VKontakte.[2] In order to meet the growing needs of VKontakte, they registered Selectel and launched the first data center in St. Petersburg, Russia.[3] Between 2008 and 2012, Selectel opened 5 new data centers:

  • Tsvetochnaya 1 in St. Petersburg
  • Berzarina in Moscow
  • Dubrovka 1, 2, 3 in the town of Nevskaya Dubrovka, outside of St. Petersburg.[4]

Selectel's sixth and latest Tier III data center, Tsvetochnaya 2, was launched in December 2015 in St. Petersburg, right next to Tsvetochnaya 1.[5]

In November 2015, RIPE NCC included Selectel on their list of K-root node hosts.[6]

On October 10, 2017, Selectel announced a non-financial partnership with Russian-Singapore joint venture SONM by sharing the use of blockchain technology. The first joint products will be launched in 2018. The first cloud products from Selectel will be a file storage site (NAS) and the storage site similar to Amazon S3.[7]

Services

Selectel presently offers a variety of brands and services including dedicated physical and virtual server leasing, colocation services, cloud services, and fiber-optic leasing. In 2015, Selectel released two major developments in their line of cloud-based hosting solutions: the Virtual Private Cloud and the vScale brand of cloud servers.[8][9]

Selectel is known to rarely take down malicious content or spam services hosted on its network,[10] and is considered “a potentially high fraud risk ISP” by Scamalytics.[11]

References
  1. "Top 10 Commercial Data Centers by Number of Commercial Racks, 2014" (in Russian). iKS Consulting, December 22, 2014. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  2. "Vkontakte Cofounders Building Technopark in St. Petersburg". East-West Digital News, June 13, 2014. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  3. Daria Trenina, "Selectel Shaping the Data Center Market" (in Russian). IP-News, April 13, 2009. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  4. Arina Bukovskaya, "Five Megawatts in Dubrovka. Selectel Launches New Data Center in Leningrad Region" (in Russian). SPB-IT-RU, July 11, 2011. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  5. "Selectel Opens 1,000 Rack-Capacity Data Center" (in Russian). COMNEWS, December 18, 2015. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  6. Romeo Zwart, "Update on K-root Expansion". RIPE NCC, November 12, 2015. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  7. "Selectel, SONM to launch infrastructure systems for blockchain". www.telecompaper.com. Retrieved 2017-10-10.
  8. "On the steps of Amazon: Russian data center Selectel launches “Virtual Private Cloud” storage service". East-West Digital News, May 21, 2015. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  9. "Selectel unveils new cloud hosting brand: Vscale". GawkWire, August 28, 2018. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  10. "Stopping Serial Killer: Catching the Next Strike". Check Point Research. 2021-01-04. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
  11. "OOO "Network of data-centers "Selectel" - Fraud Check". scamalytics.com. Retrieved 2021-01-07.

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