Colocation Hosting
Co-location means place the equipment (such as hardware) in another location. So co-location server hosting means a customer can place their own server machine in any data center or at web hosting company. Usually these co-location servers are place in co-location data centers. The data centers provides the colocation facility such as internet backbone connections, manage the location, security of server machine, troubleshooting and more. Some of people used co-location in many different ways like collocation; co-location and colocation all have the same meaning. You can place your server in data centers directly, or some web hosting companies take space on lease from data centers contact them for placing servers and collocations resellers are also providing space but they are not available on site.

Co-location offers number of advantages. The term co-location is also known as colocation web server hosting. Before selecting any co-location data centers number of things should be considers. Your business plane, how many servers you want for collocating, required bandwidth, and the hardware of the machine. Many companies designs these servers select the most suitable. Data centers provide the full optimum environment to collocated web servers, so that they can run properly.

Differences between co-location and dedicated web hosting

In dedicated web hosting one can lease the complete server of the hosting company for hosting sites. Following are some differences between dedicated web hosting and co-location web hosting.

The main difference between the two is that, in colocation web hosting you place your own server for hosting, while in dedicated web hosting you take server on rent from web hosting companies. Co-located web hosting is very expensive in the start, because you have to purchase your own server machines and other equipment. But its running cost is very less as compared to dedicated web hosting. In collocation web hosting you are limited in services from the host company, you have to do every thing with the servers, the data center and hosting companies do not provides any kind of services or colocation solutions while in dedicated web hosting you enjoy both the features of a hosting and colocation servers.

In dedicated web hosting you can not do any thing with the hardware of the server, not installed new hardware or can not remove the old one. All is in hands of web hosting company, while in co-location you can attach new hardware for increasing the efficiency of the server or can remove the old hardware’s.