What is Colocation?

DaRecordon · Feb 9, 2017

I am viewing offers on this forum and there are some colocation offers. So exactly what is Colocation? and what are colocation offers in web hosting? Your answers would be appreciated.

cloudean · Feb 9, 2017

Hi,
A colocation (colo) is a data center facility in which a business can rent space for servers and other computing hardware. Typically, a colo provides the building, cooling, power, bandwidth and physical security while the customer provides servers and storage.

In simple words, you will host your own server @ data center facility and pay rent to keep it safe and online*

DTS-NET · Feb 9, 2017

basically you build your own hardware aka server load it up with ram and storage and the best cpu then ship it to a colo provider
it will save your more money if you go with the right service provider

hynds · Feb 9, 2017

Colocation (also known as â€˜co-location' or â€˜colo') is the practice of housing privately-owned servers and networking equipment in a third party data centre. Instead of keeping servers in-house, in offices or at a private data centre, companies can choose to â€˜co-locate' their equipment by renting space in a colocation centre. Therefore, unlike other kinds of hosting, where customers can rent space on a server owned by a hosting provider, with colocation the customer already owns the server and rents the required physical space to house it within a data centre.

Source: http://www.interoute.com/what-is-colocation

VictorVictories · Feb 9, 2017

Collocation is housing ones server in a data center that belongs a different organisation that is managed by professionals. It seem wise for the even the largest organisation to collocate their servers as managing one's data centre needs extensive resources â€” skilled workforce, monitoring, backup equipment etc.

cloudean · Feb 9, 2017

Hi,
You starting to think it as magic; Trust me, It's not.
Please read terms in buyers agreement carefully.
Many think you need to think about,
1) Power
2) network
3) Security
4) location
5) Technical support and Maintenance.
6) Facility type : Tier 3 / Tier 4.
7) Emergency backup plans like for Hardware replacements, Network failure, etc

Please clarify before moving forward, How are you or data center service provider going to handle respective things.
Colocation has it's own pros and cons as well, just like any other type of hosting.

With this service you just ship them your server and they set it up for you?

Sometime you have to personally deliver them!:crazy:
Have a word with colo-facility provider. Everyone has there own ways to handle things. Differ case by case basis.

Good luck!

Datacentreplus · Feb 9, 2017

Colocation simply allows you to put your own server hardware in a data centre. You rent that rack space.

Of course the benefits of colocating your server is that you get to benefit from the purpose built infrastructure solely designed to keep your services up, connections running and everything secure. You don't have to worry about power, cooling, security, network, back up systems etc. All that is included in most cases, and you can focus on doing what you do best, running your business!

It's a better solution than keeping the server under a desk or in a back room which isn't optimised or designed to support the server. What happens if you have a power cut? your phone lines go dead? How would it impact your business?

bestcast4u · Feb 9, 2017

Colocation is the practice of housing privately-owned servers and networking equipment in a third party data center.

HostingWaves · Feb 10, 2017

A colocation is a data center facility in which a hosting company can rent space for servers and other computing hardware. A colo provides the building, cooling, power, bandwidth and physical security while the customer provides servers and storage.

gigsgigs · Feb 12, 2017

Simple layman description .

When you have one or many servers, need to get it online in proper facilities (network , power, infrastructure, security etc), you going to put / co-locate this servers to Data Center . Data Center least you a space, racks, or some part of rack to you to put your servers . This is call co-locations.

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