Sunday, February 27, 2011

Do You Need To Know About Colocated Hosting? Read Here.

By Carlo Kelzzio


In the web industry colocation is a popular word. It refers to a service offered by the host service provider by giving some space to the customer's communications equipment in their (host's) data center with many other servers for internet connectivity.

Carriers which are good at web site hosting supplies colocation service. The serving, housing and maintaining files for web sites are included in Web site hosting. Colocated hosting is better than Dedicated hosting. Dedicated hosting refers to having a separate server or solo machine on a web server just for yourself and the server has to be maintained by the user. So opt for Dedicated hosting only if you require an entire web server and also net connection for any personal business activity.

Accommodating the customer's servers in a data center is present in colocated hosting. A Data center is a facility where in computer systems and its related components are housed.

Data centers usually includes data storage systems, telecommunications, redundant data communications, redundant power supplies, environmental controls, security devices, fire suppression and security protocols. This Data center is controlled by the service provider to have a stabilized networking, connectivity, power and security services. For the user this is maintained by the service provider.

There are more advantages in using Colocation hosting as it costs lesser than renting a dedicated server. You have to pay for its power and bandwidth if you rent a dedicated server whereas the server's price won't be of a concern to the user when colocation hosting is concerned.

If the user doesn't like the price of the host server or the offers provided by the service provider then the user can easily shift to another Colocation provider and these are the uses of using colocation. To install, operate, update and maintain the operating software the user has to know computer installation and maintenance skills. The web site creating software wizards which are offered by the server providers these days aids in running client's sites with minimum delay. It also helps to add or remove pages, to add links, change navigation labels and all these could be done even if you don't have any idea about coding.




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