A slightly different format of dedicated server hosting is the Co-located Web Hosting Plan or Collocation Plans. Collocation means "co-location". This solution lets you place or locate your own web server on the premises or locations of a service provider. It is pretty much the same as running your own server in your own office, only that it is located at a place better designed for it. The hosting company provides physical space that the server takes up and takes care of the server. They plug your server into their existing network and power systems and become responsible for ensuring their network is always available, while you are only responsible for the support and maintenance of your server.
Thus you, the user, purchase the hardware, software, and the actual server. However, rather than setting this computer up at your location where you are responsible for it’s maintenance, when you use a co-location plan your server is monitored and connected to the web at a third party data center. This facility has been designed with resources of a secure cage or cabinet, regulated power sources, dedicated Internet connections, security and 24/7 support.
You are at a stage when you have worked hard to create a web presence and your e-business cannot afford any costly downtime. Whether you are creating a corporate presence, an e-business site or an extranet, uptime is of utmost importance. Co-located web hosting services enables you to focus on your core competency while they provide highly trained technical resources and a secure, redundant environment for your multimedia, corporate intranet/extranet, and e-commerce applications.
These co-location data centers offer their clients a secure facility to physically house their hardware and equipment. This in turn reduces the risk to the client of having to set up this server in his or her own office or warehouse where there is a greater potential for fire, theft or vandalism.
All servers and applications are protected with redundant HVAC air filtration, fire suppression systems, uninterrupted power supply protection and are served by a dedicated team of diesel generators. Internet connectivity is usually provided by fibre optic line in conjunction with a high-availability, fault-tolerant and redundant router structure that offers fail-over to wireless if landlines are compromised. Some data centers even advertise that in the event of power loss, their facility has sufficient on-site fuel for seven (7) days of continuous operation.
With the risk of physical down time reduced drastically, you can rest knowing your website will always be accessible. You also have the most control of your server - not only do you, the owner, choose what to put on your server, but what technology will be hardwired to the physical machine itself. Frequent clients of co-located services are web-hosting providers, because they want 100% control and ownership of their servers. Co-located services are for companies or individuals in need of mission-critical hosting operations. Co-located web hosting prices are not usually based on specific pricing plans as the prices vary greatly on each individual client's needs and are usually based on usage and specific requirement.
A co-located solution is perfect for businesses that require a large amount of bandwidth and storage, high security and not down time. This is the most powerful and very expensive type of the web hosting service. It definitely requires much the owner has higher technical skills as it is harder to configure and debug and having physical access to your server may be the only issue. Most time, the data center provides only the electrical, Internet access, and storage facilities for the server and little or no support directly for the server so most time, you will have to supply your own administrator to visit the data center on site to do any hardware upgrades or changes.
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