Colocation hosting is a low-cost server hosting strategy that uses 24/7 high-speed internet services.  It from a provider, excellent operational security, superior availability and long-term stability while using the current server inventory from the client. It usually increases business operations, reduces capital costs and enhances the quality of service provided by the customers. 

The Colocation takes the existing server infrastructure of the client and moves it from the on-premise deployment of the client into the datacentre of the colocation provider.

What is colocation?

Colocation is placing an organization’s physical server in a hosting company’s data centre. The organization puts their server on the provider’s rack and uses the provider’s power and network connections.

The colocation hosting company provides the following services:

• • • Physical security
    • High speed internet access
    • Uninterrupted power
    • Enterprise heating and cooling
    • Physical disaster mitigation

Colocation providers have in-depth knowledge for a variety of organizational needs regarding maintenance and resource provisioning. This specialized knowledge enables companies to avoid expensive investments in the infrastructure of internet technologies.

It is prohibitively expensive and time-consuming for virtually every organization to hire IT experts, pay them commensurate wages and simultaneously pay for expensive network hardware and a properly designed hosting facility.

Next, knowledgeable, professional workers with considerable experience in the hosting industry tend to run around – the-clock data centres. Colocation gives companies peace of mind and reduced operating costs relative to on-site IT activities, rather than paying a high premium for having their IT workers on hand and educated in the latest approaches and network technology. To summarize – colocation means organizations side-step one of the expensive and risky elements required for any business in today’s world: hosting their information technology.

How does colocation work?

First of all, your organization buys its own server hardware and software with the colocation services. The hosting provider handles the demands of the network, power and housing. To maintain the stringent environments required by modern servers. Colocation companies do not in reality access the physical server unless customers are required to purchase direct administration, usually called remote hands.

You are responsible for setting up and setting up your system to meet the needs of your company. And for handling the physical aspects (such as replacing an old server). Organizations that use it need a strong understanding of what they’re going to do with their server. How they’re going to do it and what hardware and software add-ons they’re going to need to achieve their hosting goals. This is why the bulk of colocation customers are those who picked up their current IT equipment from the existing on-site system and transferred it to the data centre of the colocation provider.

Since servers must be remotely accessed, the server of the organization is accessed and controlled via a console.

In the event of an emergency, Colocation offers geographic flexibility with the confidence that an expert staff has boots on the ground to manage physical problems at the data centre. So, the primary benefits are leveraging the power contracts and capabilities of a data centre and the bandwidth. Remote hands are available in an emergency, for an hourly fee.

Finally, If your server requires a great deal of bandwidth and maximum uptime. And your organization can manage such as the installation, maintenance and software supervision internally. Colocation offers enormous savings and risk reduction over keeping your server on-site.