Data Centre Colocation

Colocation - The scalable solution that offers you affordable control

If you are looking into colocation you have probably out grown your current hosting environment and are investigating the options available. A good data centre colocation provider will offer you a flexible package that is tailored to your requirements and won’t break your budget whilst giving you the control over the hardware and software that a virtual host cant.

So, why choose colocation?

There are so many positive factors for choosing data centre colocation that as long as you can find a provider that you are comfortable to work with, who understands your business and are within your locality it should be the best solution for you. The main factors are;

Concentrate on your core strengths

It allows you to focus on your business, the product or service that you offer your client base without having to worry about your servers and their environment. The colocation data centre will have the specialist staff required which means you can concentrate on your business and not have an expensive IT specialist on your wage bill. Colocation specialists will be happy working in a dark room with hundred of servers, miles of cabling and no natural daylight, let them work for you.

The right home for your server.

You might not realize but your server needs looking after! A good colocation data centre will provide the correct environment for your server and take this matter very seriously. The building will be secure with minimal advertising, it may even look derelict from the outside which is just the image a good colocation centre will want to portray. It will have fire safety elements built in to ensure if there was a fire then it wouldn’t spread through the data centre. The environment is air conditioned and humidity controlled with an emphasis on cooling, this makes colocation centres noisy places. Do you really want that noise in your office when you are trying to sell to clients? Let the colocation specialists take care of your server!

Peace of mind

If there is ever an issue it normally occurs at 3am on a cold wet night, let somebody else deal with it. Colocation data centres will offer 24/7 monitoring as standard on any package you take with them. On the rare occasion there is a fault this will mean a colocation engineer will be working on it whilst you are still sleeping. Through economies of scale data centre colocation will offer you daily back up, redundant systems and other disaster plans that allows you to sell your product or service with a guarantee of uptime. Crucially they will also have back up power in case of serious mains faults often in the form of generators.

Performance

Crucially, a good colocation provider will ensure fast connectivity that will allow your server to perform at it’s optimum. They will have multiple cable entry points just in case a workman digs through one, the larger colocation data centres may even have a back up wireless connection as well. This performance will ensure that the product you have placed on the server will work quickly through colocation and equally you don’t have to worry about your own connection.

A colocation solution offers you scalability that can grow and change in step with your business but offers control and better performance than a virtual host ever could. All you need to do is find a decent cloud computing data centre colocation company!