What is Colocation hosting?

[Sameer Shoakat]

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[harry26]

A colocation provider will rent out space in a data centre in which customers can install their equipment, but will also provide the power, bandwidth, IP address and cooling systems that the customer will require in order to successfully deploy their server.

[novaco112]

Colocation allows you to place your server machine in someone else's rack and share their bandwidth as your own. It generally costs more than standard Web hosting, but less than a comparable amount of bandwidth into your place of business.

[novaco112]

Colocation (also known as ‘co-location’ or ‘colo’) is the practice of housing privately-owned servers and networking equipment in a third party data centre. Instead of keeping servers in-house, in offices or at a private data centre.

[chrisgeitz]

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[runningtowers]

Colocation represents the exercise of real estate your web servers and gadgets in a professional datacenter in order to accessibility financial systems of range,

[sanamgupta]

Colocated hosting provider is responsible for the security and upkeep of the facility, so that the space, power and bandwidth that they provide you are not compromised. As you can see, colocation is much more of a hands-on, do-it-yourself solution, as opposed to managed hosting. A colocation provider will rent out space in a data centre in which customers can install their equipment, but will also provide the power, bandwidth, IP address and cooling systems that the customer will require in order to successfully deploy their server.

[James_T]

Yeah, colocated hosting is similar to dedicated hosting.

[hostmayo]

@kaufenpreis you have explained the concept of colocation beautifully. I have only one question that if I live outside USA and want to avail colocation service, is that possible? Can i order server from internet and the thing can be shipped to data centre and they install it for me. Or the procedure is all different from what I'm thinking.

[alicemaris558]

Colocation hosting is the housing privately owned servers and networking equipment in a third party data center. With colocation hosting, you can place your server hardware in some other company's rack and then share the bandwidth.

[cheryljack01]

Colocation is a hosting option for small businesses who want the features of a large IT department without the costs. It is the smart and best way in some companies to handle their business resources with more efficient ways.

[vashimantra]

A colocation (colo) is a data center facility in which a business can rent space for servers and other computing hardware.

[InterNetX]

@kaufenpreis you have explained the concept of colocation beautifully. I have only one question that if I live outside USA and want to avail colocation service, is that possible? Can i order server from internet and the thing can be shipped to data centre and they install it for me. Or the procedure is all different from what I'm thinking.

Of course this is possible! Just make sure that you use some international delivery options, such as UPS, etc.
Are you interested in Colocation in Germany? You can rent colocation space and then ship the servers to our data center. We can help you with our remote hands service to install the servers in the racks. You can rent from 1 unit up to entire racks with 47 units. You can find more information on www.internetx-housing.com.
Don't hesitate to contact me for further information!

[nomanali]

I'm also not familiar with colocation hosting but after reading posts on this thread, i've got some idea. Can you share some good article which clearly describes this technology?

[crescendo]

Colocation is also known as 'co-location' or 'colo' is the practice of housing privately-owned servers and network equipment in the third party data centre.Instead of keeping servers in-house, in offices or at a private data centre,companies can choose to co-locate their equipment by renting space in a co-location centre.
A co-location provider will rent out space in a data centre where customers can install their equipment but also access scale economics, advanced infrastructure, greater bandwidth, lower latency, specialist services and systems, constant security, and a whole host of additional advantages.