Colocation of servers
Ok! Another question has been asked about hosting. I received this via Email within hours of our last post about shared hosting:
What is colocation and what are the benefits?
In many ways, collocation is like having a huge data department with a fully trained staff and large resources without having to spend for it all. You are purchasing equipment, such as data servers and web servers, and they are managing them all for you at their location.
It’s your equipment, your data, their workforce. They can do the backups, management, and even reboots for you on-demand. They can help with the security, system administration, and data storage needs. They will also almost always have some kind of up-time guarantee, because it just doesn’t do any good to have the data that well protected if you can’t get at it.
Thanks again for all of your input, keep asking those questions, and we will keep answering them!
October 20th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
These are great posts of yours! Very informative!
But, one suggestion. If you’re going to do colocation, make sure you pick a good place to go with. You don’t want your hardware tampered with or lost!
December 6th, 2007 at 3:03 am
Right, This post has also helped us very well.