Dorabase is reshaping Turkey’s digital infrastructure landscape with a strategic presence in both Istanbul and Ankara, ensuring low-latency connectivity, regulatory compliance, and geo-redundancy for its clients.
Speaking with
Website Planet, Bircan Özbaş shared how the company combines co-location, cloud, and dedicated server solutions with 24/7 remote management to deliver flexibility and reliability without locking businesses into rigid contracts. On top of that, Dorabase strengthens performance and security through advanced edge services such as Cloud DNS, CDN, and WAF, all managed under a seamless framework.
With a one-stop-shop approach and strong global partnerships, Dorabase empowers enterprises to scale, secure, and simplify their IT operations.
What drove Dorabase to establish data center operations in Equinix IL2 (Istanbul) and Türk Telekom’s facility (Ankara)?
At Dorabase, our choice was very strategic.
- Equinix IL2 (Istanbul) sits at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, making it an ideal hub for low-latency connectivity and regional reach. With its ISO/SOC certifications, resilient power/cooling infrastructure, and global interconnection ecosystem, it allows us to deliver secure and highly available services.
- Türk Telekom’s facility in Ankara gives us a strong domestic footprint, especially for public sector and enterprise clients that require local data residency and compliance with KVKK (Turkey’s data protection law). It also provides valuable geo-redundancy, complementing our Istanbul operations.
- On the other hand, the KKB data center in Ankara is located at the heart of Turkey’s fintech ecosystem. This is a very special ‘white-label’ environment that ensures full compliance with regulations from the BRSA (Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency) and other authorities. This significantly strengthens our position in two crucial areas for financial technology firms: uninterrupted service and regulatory compliance.
This dual presence ensures that we can meet both performance and compliance needs across the country.
How do your co-location and remote infrastructure management services deliver value to enterprise clients?
Our clients benefit from
flexibility, operational reliability and cost efficiency:
- They can bring their own servers or use our dedicated hardware on a rental basis.
- With 24/7 remote hands, our solution architectures can perform on-site tasks on behalf of clients, quickly resolving physical interventions without the client being present.
- We provide contract flexibility so that enterprises aren’t tied down with long-term commitments.
This means businesses can scale infrastructure in line with project demands, reduce CapEx, and still maintain enterprise-grade reliability.
Additionally, we complement this with broader digital services such as
domain (asset) management, corporate email, and SSL/hosting integrations, helping clients centralize both infrastructure and digital assets under a single operations framework.
What edge services — such as managed Cloud DNS, CDN, and WAF — do you offer, and how do they boost performance and security?
Dorabase partners with leading global edge providers to deliver:
- Managed Cloud DNS: Anycast-based, with more than 1.700 global nodes, ensuring low latency and high uptime by resolving queries from the nearest location.
- CDN (Content Delivery Network): With over 1.700 PoPs worldwide (plus domestic nodes in Istanbul and Ankara), we accelerate static assets, images, and video delivery. This not only improves user experience but also SEO scores.
- WAF (Web Application Firewall): Preconfigured for OWASP Top 10 threats, it provides granular traffic filtering (by IP, geo, headers) and detailed logging, shielding applications from zero-day and volumetric attacks.
Combined, these services
enhance both performance and security, reducing load times, mitigating DDoS risk, and ensuring uninterrupted business continuity.
How does Dorabase’s partnership approach (with CDNetworks, Bytedance, etc.) enhance client flexibility and cost-effectiveness?
Our partnership model is designed to
maximize client choice while simplifying operations:
- Clients can run Proof-of-Concept (PoC) trials across multiple providers guided by our solution architects.
- Regardless of the provider, Dorabase is the single point of contact for onboarding, implementation, contracts, billing, and support.
- Dorabase’s one-stop-shop model enables clients to meet all of their IT infrastructure needs, which they would typically source from multiple providers, through a single partner and a dedicated solution architect. Thanks to our managed services offering, we can even operate as an in-house or outsourced team within their organization, while our aggregated purchasing power allows clients to access better pricing than they could by negotiating directly with global providers.
This ensures clients remain flexible in choosing the right technology, without the complexity of managing multiple vendors and invoices.
Can you walk us through a proof-of-concept (PoC) and onboarding process for edge services with Dorabase?
We typically follow a structured five-step process:
- Needs Assessment: We evaluate business workloads, traffic patterns and security priorities.
- PoC Deployment: Trial setups are run with selected providers to measure performance and resilience.
- Comparative Evaluation: Providers are benchmarked for latency, cost, compliance, and features.
- Onboarding: DNS, CDN, and WAF integrations are implemented into the client’s existing infrastructure.
- Account & Support: A dedicated account manager oversees operations, and 24/7 support ensures seamless service.
At this stage, many clients also consolidate related digital services with us, such as
domain management, corporate e-mail, and hosting, which helps unify operations during the transition.
How does Dorabase support clients with scalable infrastructure needs—from cloud servers to dedicated physical servers—without long-term commitments?
Scalability without lock-in is a core principle at Dorabase:
- Cloud Servers: Flexible compute and storage, billed in local currency for predictable costs and compliant with local regulations.
- Dedicated Servers: Enterprise-grade hardware, deployable for short-term or project-based needs.
- Co-location: Clients can colocate their own equipment while leveraging our 24/7 support, networking, and redundant facilities.
This model enables clients to
scale up during peak demand and
scale down when workloads decrease, without being trapped in rigid contracts.
In summary, we aim to provide companies with
end-to-end infrastructure solutions, meeting all their technological needs from a single point. You can think of it like an orchestra; we bring together each instrument (service) to create a harmonious melody (service offering). We start by meeting fundamental infrastructure needs like
Cloud,
Dedicated Servers, and
Colocation. On top of that, to boost web performance—which is a must-have in today’s digital world—we offer
CDN (Content Delivery Network) services. This ensures that websites load quickly on a global scale and improves the user experience.
We also take a comprehensive approach to cybersecurity, which is one of the biggest concerns today. We protect our clients’ digital assets with advanced Cloud Security products such as
Cloud DNS,
WAF (Web Application Firewall),
DDoS Protection,
Bot Protection, and
API Shield. We manage these services with our own teams, which takes the operational burden off our clients’ shoulders. For small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), we complete our solutions with essential but vital services like
SSL certificates,
domain registration, and especially
hosting packages.
In short, we position ourselves as a
‘one-stop-shop’ in the infrastructure space. Throughout a company’s entire journey, from infrastructure and web security to performance and basic digital needs, we’re there to provide all these services in an integrated way through a
Managed Service model. This allows companies to focus on their core business, while entrusting their technological infrastructure to our expertise.
Find out more at:
www.dorabase.com
