
History
Our progression to an efficient data centre operator.

The firstcolo company history
Our development
firstcolo is a modern IT service provider with a high level of competence and service orientation in the area of servers and network infrastructure. Our company has been successful on the market for over ten years and has experienced rapid growth from the very beginning. Our strengths include high flexibility, uncompromising customer orientation and the consistent use of state-of-the-art as well as efficient technologies.

A brief review
Jerome Evans founded FSHost GbR in 2004. The company successfully offered hosting and game server products and thus acquired a large customer base. In 2007, Evans founded First Colo GmbH in order to cope with the ever-increasing administrative workload and to expand the product range accordingly. At the beginning of 2011, the firstcolo data centre was opened in the Accent Office Center. In 2017, First Colo GmbH acquired Accelerated IT Services & Consultig GmbH under the parent company diva-e (www.diva-e.com). Since then, firstcolo has been positioned as a brand of diva-e Datacenters GmbH with two data centres in Frankfurt am Main (Accent Office Center and Werkhaus) - and this marks a new entrepreneurial era for us.
Our path at a glance
2022
2021
Expansion of the capacity of the firstcolo backbone to 1500 Gbit/s
Construction of the redundancy site in Zurich, as well as construction of a PoP at NTT, Frankfurt
2020
Construction of a PoP at Equinix, Munich
2019
Construction and productive commissioning of the firstcolo Openstack cluster
2018
2017
First Colo GmbH merges with Accelerated IT Services & Consulting GmbH under the parent company diva-e
2016
Merger with five e-business service providers for digital value creation to form diva-e (www.diva-e.com)
Cooperation partnership with Proxmox
2015
Capacity expansion of power infrastructure
2014
Expansion of the data centre thereby doubling the capacity