Colocation is placing an organization’s physical server in a hosting company’s data center. The organization puts their server on the provider’s rack and uses the provider’s power and network connections. Colocation is a data center facility that, companies can buy space in to host their servers and experience higher security and guaranteed uptime.
Colocation is placing an organization’s physical server in a hosting company’s data center. The organization puts their server on the provider’s rack and uses the provider’s power and network connections. Colocation is a data center facility that, companies can buy space in to host their servers and experience higher security and guaranteed uptime.
With colocation services, your organization purchases its own server hardware and software. The hosting provider handles the network, power and housing demands for maintaining the stringent environments that modern servers require.
Colocation providers do not actually touch the physical server unless customers purchase direct administration, typically called remote hands is required. Client is responsible for setting up and configuring your server to meet your organization’s needs, as well as managing the physical aspects such as replacing an old server, storage manage or any other hardware related work.
Organizations that utilize colocation require a fairly strong grasp of what they will do with their server, how they will do it and what hardware and software add-ons they will require to accomplish their hosting goals. Which is why most colocation customers are those who have picked up their current IT infrastructure out of the current on premise environment and moved it to the colocation provider’s datacenter.
The colocation hosting company provides the following services:
