What is Collocation Hosting?

10 Dec, 2009 | Written by | under Web Hosting Interviews

Server Collocation 101 Some people in the hosting industry look at collocation as a dirty word?? Why does collocation hosting have such a bad rap?? well, first let us take a look at what collocation hosting is really about.

At its core this means that the provisioning of space, bandwidth and power is controlled by a third-party data center.? they do not control it all though.? Most of the time, the web host who is using the third-party?s data center services will need to provide the management for the hardware or servers they are running from there.

To try to make sense of this, lets say I want to start a store.? I go rent a building downtown that has all the shelves, cash registers, and shopping carts ? however I have to stock the store myself and, of course, figure out a way to bring the customers in the door.? Instead of spending money on buying the store and some of the basic necessities, I get to rent them ? in turn bringing my overall costs down.

So, with it explained like that ? where is the evil in it?

Well, many web hosting elite look down upon this practice because it is a money saving practice.? It lowers the proverbial bar on the point of entry somebody has to become a web host too.

Since building a data center from the ground up is a very expensive and time consuming act, I see no problem in getting your hosting through collocation.

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