Wednesday, March 16, 2011

What Are The Advantages Of Hosting Colocation

By Alfonso Hinton


An online presence is of the utmost importance for many businesses. To get to those greater areas of success and visibility, it is a necessity, not a choice, to have a good, solid online presence for your business. However, making the wrong choice as to the networking and server hosting solution that you choose really does have the ability to make or break your online endeavor. To ensure that you are choosing the option that best fits the needs of your business, it is vital that you consider ever option available to you for your server hosting needs.

There are many benefits and advantages to colocation services that are not available through any other form of server hosting option, even the much vaunted cloud server hosting technologies. What you are doing, when you choose to use the services of a so called "colo" or co-location service, is contracting the use of space in a full fledged data center to manage your server and networking needs, as an alternative to the capital involved in building your own data center, or relying on the resources of your particular location.

A colocation server is highly beneficial for businesses who are either in the field of e-commerce - or selling products, services, or information online - or those who send and receive large quantities of sensitive data on a regular basis. Many find this option to be far more cost effective than the purchasing of the resources it would take to create a truly functional data center to meet your needs. It is not simply enough to have the technological workings for a data center, and the server technology alone is expensive enough. In order to house all the necessary equipment, one also needs a specialized building, and one also needs fail-safe option, as well as bandwidth capabilities.

When you choose a co-location option, many of your networking and processing capacity is handled off-site at the data center through which you have contracted. There is a peace of mind that off site storage and handle of the vital data and processing provides for business owners, making this a very valuable choice. Should something happen to the network of your actual business, the building that your business is located in, or even your computers, having the data and processing handled by an off site third party service provider means that even if that worst case scenario were to take place, you would not lose all your data and processing capabilities.

The choosing of a colocation service is not only far more cost effective for many businesses, as the upfront costs of building a data center are incredibly high and prohibitive, and by choosing said services you can get the peace of mind that data management in an off site location provides, as well as the knowledge of the security of your data and related networking processes. You can have the freedom to choose whichever networking and server technologies work best for your business, but you don't have to mess with the hassles of building the needed infrastructure, nor do you have to manage the server either. Many find this to be a more cost effective solution to the building of a company data center, and for those businesses that are not large enough to even consider that option, but that still need that security and functionality, this is the perfect option.




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