Colocation hosting can turn out to be expensive as the customer should not only pay for renting or buying a server and related equipments but also hire the space at provider’s facility required to accommodate them.
In Colocation Web Hosting, the server owned or leased by the user is housed at the rack space hired at a data or colocation centre. This type of hosting is mainly preferred by business organizations that do not possess the infrastructure to house their server and can neither host the server on their own. The customer can physically house the server and associated hardware at the provider’s data centre which also provides intense security, multiple internet connections, redundant power lines, backup generators, fire detection and suppression systems, 24X7 surveillance and other high end services.
Colocation hosting can turn out to be expensive as the customer should not only pay for renting or buying a server and related equipments but also hire the space at provider’s facility required to accommodate them. Apart from the initial set up charge, customer should also pay for the bandwidth according to the usage on monthly basis. The user should have technical expertise to operate, control and maintain the server as it is the sole responsibility of the user.
Along with technical expertise required for server management, the customer is also responsible to resolve any problem that occurs to the server. As the server is housed at the colocation centre of the service provider, the customer would have to travel to the facility in order to work on the server and would have access only for a specific period of time which turns out to be a hassle if any immediate and complex problem occurs. However, at further additional charge, the hosting providers mostly offer tech support to customers for efficient server management.
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