12/24
2009

Colocation Hosting Services

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A co-located server is a web server which is placed at a facility that includes specialised safety features such as dedicated Internet connectivity, a secured server rack, these servers gets very good technically support. These colocation facilities and high technical support ensures customer that their servers are in safe hands.Collocation is the best place to place your servers your servers will be secure and you don’t have to worry about servers safety and other maintenance because your managed colocation service provider will take care of these issues its hundred times better to store your server collocation services than placing your servers in some office or storage warehouse, where there are risk like fire,any natural calamity or some other mishap which can effect your both your server and business. Colocation Data Center Services provides many features like backup systems, physical security with cameras and other major facilities which are exclusive to a Managed data center.

Colocation Vs Dedicated

The word colocation refers to the act of placing a in private  server in a Data center where colocation service provider will be taking care of your servers security and network and other resources which will be needed for smooth working of your server .When you decide to collocate your server you gets the flexibility of choosing the desired configuration for your server you can choose the desired brand of server,you have a rights to access your server any time. While on the other hand in case of a Dedicated Server which is offered by a web hosting service provider client lease out a server on which he don’t have any physical access to the server they only provide remote access to the server.

Advantages of Colocation Hosting service -

The safety provided by the collocation service is very desirable . The web server are stored in the rooms with complete safety which includes 24×7 monitoring video cameras,Physical access to the site is usually restricted to few persons. The flexibility of colocation hosting is also very attractive, as the user can easily upgrade their service at any time. Also the user can access with fast bandwidth, and big amount of data storage. Combine with these advantages, the colocation hosting service is best for online businesses.

Disadvantages of Colocation Hosting service -

While colocation service hosting are considered as extremely safe hosting, still some users don’t trust their hardware with third party. Obviously server price of thousand of dollars and in some cases it is apprehensible to be a little protective over your hardware. Another disadvantages is you need to maintain and upgrade the server by yourself. Complete equipment must be purchased by you, and you have no option to rent a server for a less cost. This creates colocation hosting an expensive choice which can be used by big businesses. So for a High Traffic website, colocation server is the best option to choose.

12/21
2009

Colocation Services – Data Centers Security

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Presently, there are numerous people who are looking to step into the internet world and begin their business, the amount of web hosting companies are currently on the internet has only increased. If you search on the internet for the keyword web hosting service, you will get a huge results with different types of features and web tools at different rates. Due to heavy competition the quality of web hosting service has increased vastly, but the cost have go down. There are many users who do not choose to manage the complete web hosting server along with its hardware and other security features. So, most of them go for Colocatioin Hosting Service. The Colocation hosting servers are normally used in BIG IT Organization and other top organization as it requires a lot of maintenance and other facilities. However, these colocation web hosting servers are highly trustworthy and more limber compared to any of web hosting server types. It also becomes easy to upgrade your server or the web hosting plan to meet the needs of your website and the content present in it.

These colocation servers comes with a steady power facility which has multiple power grids with top category generators and has a dedicated cooling equipment. They even come with an continuous power supply which act as a back up system for your web servers in the act of a power outage, thus preventing a loss of important data. Still, the safety of data is the main concern of the users who all are using colocation hosting service. This is why, in case of the dedicated hosting, your complete data is stored in some remote facility on which you don’t have any control. While, these data centers are completely secure and have various features that gives surety that your data is highly secure.

Some important information that helps in protecting you data are given below :

  • The main important features of the colocation Data Center Services is the central backup recovery system that helps in creating copy for your data. This create sure that you have the back up of the total data that is existing in the data center. Also this back up is not stored in a one place. There are multiple copies saved to avoid any risk of data loss.
  • The data centers is also well equipped and have many features installed even to detect the fire. Data Center is completely secures with physical security and cameras to avoid any unknown person in the center.

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