Colocation vs. Dedicated

What are the advantages and the disadvantages between Colocation & Dedicated hosting in your opinion.which you like better and which to choose?

colocation = you buy your server.
do this when u are seriously in the business, and confirm it will be profiting.

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I think its a little more complicated than that

With colocation, you do own your hardware, but remember... that also means you will be responsible for any failures. If you rent a dedicated server, your provider will take care of any costs for you.

I wouldnt colo anything less than a p4 server because of the cost. If you think about it, you could purchse a major machine for about $1500, then colocate it for $70/month. If you plan on keeping it for a while, colo is a more cost effective option.

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Colo means you buy a server and reckspace in the datacenter and dedi means you buy the server and if you are an experienced person you manage it yourself but if not you hire someone for it.

People speak of "buying" a dedicated server, but really it's just leasing. This distinction might make the difference between dedicated and colo clearer: dedicated is renting a server, where the host provides all the hardware, connections to the net, and so on. Colo means you go out and buy a server from Dell or whomever, and pay the colo provider to lease space in a rack in their data center, and hook your box up to the net. The computer itself is yours - you own it.

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You choose colocation if you would like to have more flexibility in managing your server not only in terms of software but even in hardware. This is applicable if you would like to upgrade or attach peripherals to your server.

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Thanks for this great explanation about colocation and dedicated

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ok
i had one question does colocation serve is equla to dedicated
I mean normal server is different to dedicated then what about colo

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Hello
Collocation get you more troubles than dedicated. You have to understand it

Why is that?
colocations means your server placed in a datacenter right?
so which is the difference?

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