What is a domain?

It is a name used to locate and identify sets of computers on the Internet. The domain name was conceived in order to facilitate the memorization of the addresses of computers on the Internet. Without it, we would have to memorize a sequence of large numbers.

See example below:

colocationservicesindia.in

Where:

colocationservicesindia is the name of the domain, and;
.In is what is called the TLD or domain extension.

Need a dedicated hosting provider?

What you need are actually two servers nameservers already configured for your domain. These nameservers are provided by the dedicated hosting provider.

You may request registration of your domain names without informing the servers nameservers immediately. You will have two weeks, counting from the date the form, to provide at least two servers set up nameservers for the domain.

What is a DNS server?

The DNS server is responsible for the equipment to allow the other machines connected to the Internet that can access the machines in your domain. Without a properly configured DNS server, your domain will not be active on the Internet.

Web Hosting

A site consists of files containing, with pictures, videos, texts and so they have to be stored on a computer 24/7 and with the guarantees of power redundancy. If a power outage, the generator takes over.

Once you place the files in these dedicated servers the site is in the air.

Now just type the address of your domain and ready example, colocationservicesindia.in

That’s it!

What’s cheaper – cloud hosting or colocation services (placing the customer’s equipment in the premises of the provider)? Colocation services are less expensive, if you place the equipment. A recently conducted calculations can help you to compare these two types of services.

According to figures provided, equivalent service will cost 118.248 dollars and 70.079 dollars in the usual data centers.

As an example, If you go somewhere once in three months, it is cheaper to take a taxi. And if you do it daily, it is better to buy a car. All that matters is the work cycle. If the duty cycle of your equipment is up to 100%, then it makes sense to have its own infrastructure.

The working cycle is the percentage of time using a hardware resource. Maximum utilization of equipment is a major priority, but such arithmetic is less profitable for companies with a lower coefficient of hardware resources. And so a “cloud web hosting” platform will be more attractive.

Very few companies make full use of their equipment, in fact, the utilization ratio is in the range of 15 to 20%. A main advantage of Cloud Services is just that you only pay for actual services used.

Nevertheless, the analytical model gives additional data to companies engaged in finding the most profitable ways to deploy the growing infrastructure.