colocation hosting

[rakesh_88]

what is colocation hosting ???

 

[cheapdedicated]

In hosting industry, the term Colocation is widely used and accepted to mean the practice of housing your OWNED physical servers and devices in a professional datacenter in order to access economies of scale, advanced infrastructure, greater bandwidth, lower latency, specialist services and systems, constant security and a whole host of additional advantages.
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[rakesh_88]

You mean I ve own server but it is being maintained by someone else

 

[Collabora]

You mean I ve own server but it is being maintained by someone else

It simply means that you install your server in a datacenter instead of on your own premise. At minimum the datacenter offers space for server, electricity and connectivity. In addition, physical security, power backup, fire suppression are usually superior to an on-premise solution.

Maintenance is usually done by server owner (datacenter will provide secured access to facility). However this can be outsourced to datacenter or other staff.

 

[cheapdedicated]

You mean I ve own server but it is being maintained by someone else

You must own the server and normally you will have to service it unless you pay extra for that. If you are not near a data centre and not very knowledgeable about server management consider getting a dedicated server instead. The provider will maintain that for you all you do is pay monthly rental and start using

 

[VpsAG]

There is also the concept Rent To Own, where you pay a higher price monthly than the monthly rent, but after a period the server is yours and you will only pay for colocation.

 

[cheapdedicated]

There is also the concept Rent To Own, where you pay a higher price monthly than the monthly rent, but after a period the server is yours and you will only pay for colocation.

The usual problem with most rent to own providers is that by the time you have paid enough to own the server, the server is already considered very old so you own an old server that might have higher maintenance costs when you start colocation.

 

[Yogesh Patil]

what is colocation hosting ???

In colocation the datacenter provides secure and reliable location for your IT equipment. All services are provided within the datacenter like cooling infrastructure, power supply backup, network connectivity, remote hands on service, etc.

1. Physical benefits: Usually the datacenter building has high security and all provide lockable cabinets or cages surrounding server rack.

2. Cooling systems: colocation facilities provide powerful air conditioning systems to keep the air appropriately cool and moisture-free.

3. Power back-ups: All colocation facilities have a power backup arrangement leading to no power failures. They also provide 99.99% uptime.

4. Economic advantages: Colocation is the biggest advantage for small scale business as it saves a lot of infrastructure cost

 

[SenseiSteve]

When you're hosting your own servers at a data center, you are colocating them there. The data center probably doesn't have spare parts for your server, but normally offers reboot services free. It is possible to keep your own spare parts there, but you'll have to pay the data center support team fees to replace them.

 

[VinaHost]

I think colocation is colocation and hosting is hosting. Colocation is where you put your servers.

 

[radwebhosting]

Much like many businesses rent their office buildings for their employees to work, colocation is renting office buildings for your servers to work.

 

[WHUK-Ryanwuk]

A colocation service provider will rent out space in a data center for customers to install their equipment. In addition, he will also provide the IP address, power, bandwidth and cooling systems that the customer will require in order to successfully deploy their server.