Colocation Space

2007-03-08 10:33:40

( Web Hosting-SEO-Web Design )



A colocation space is a physical space where you can store your telecommunications equipment for your computer server. It is located in a colocation center, a place rented out by a service provider to web site owners. A colocation center houses several colocation spaces which are rented by different clients or web site owners.

You may consider renting a colocation space for your company if you want to have full control of your web site's server. This is because colocation servers are services provided by network providers to web site owners who want to connect their own servers to the web. If your web site does not have its own server, some network providers make one for your web site before connecting it to the web.

Benefits of renting a colocation space

The following are some of the benefits of colocation servers:

Facility –Renting a colocation space saves you time and money since you share the data center infrastructure with other clients.
Environmental protection –Most colocation centers are built to withstand national disasters.
Server security – Companies which own colocation centers employ the latest technology to protect the security of clients' servers.
Emergency backup – Clients also choose to rent colocation spaces to have an offsite backup of their data.

Costs for a colocation space

Before renting your own colocation space, you need to consider two costs which you will be charged with. The first one is the rental fees which are the costs you have to pay for the space your server occupies in the web host's data center. The rental fee will depend on the measurement of the space your server occupies. The space usually ranges from one unit to a full rack, though some servers can be as big as three or four units if they have several hard drives. The second one is the connection fees which are based on the connection average, instead of the total number of gigabytes transferred per month. The computation of the measurement may be confusing so it is wise to study well all information pertaining to this cost.

Renting a colocation space for your web site is not supposed to be a hurried step. While taking note of the benefits you can get from it, you have to make sure that you have all the information related to the services provided by every web host. With this in mind, you can very well choose one good web host among the many ones in the market.


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