Type LLC Website selectel.com Founded 2008 | Industry Telecommunication Headquarters Saint Petersburg | |
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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.
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History
The company was founded in 2008 by Vyacheslav Mirilashvil and Lev Binzumovich Leviev, former investors of the Russian social network VKontakte. In order to meet the growing needs of VKontakte, they registered Selectel and launched the first data center in St. Petersburg, Russia. Between 2008 and 2012, Selectel opened 5 new data centers:
Selectel's sixth and latest Tier III data center, Tsvetochnaya 2, was launched in December 2015 in St. Petersburg, right next to Tsvetochnaya 1.
In November 2015, RIPE NCC included Selectel on their list of K-root node hosts.
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.