What is colocation?

[L.N.Smith]

I won't go to much into depth here, because I have no experience with colocation. With colocation, you own a server and you pay a datacenter to host it for you. They will provide the space in the datacenter, bandwidth, IP addresses, etc. Some hosting companies that offer colocation provide on-site staff, but others will require you to have your own staff.

This wraps up my summary of the different types of web hosting. I didn't recommend any shared or reseller providers because there are so many out there, and I have more experience with dedicated server and VPS companies. I recommend going to WebHostingTalk to read reviews about different I didn't recommend any colocation providers because I have no experience with any. I hope that I did a good job explaining all of this.

[WorldWideXS]

A colocation centre or colocation center (also spelled co-location, colo, or coloc), is a type of data centre where equipment space and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers. Colocation facilities provide space, power, cooling, and physical security for the server, storage, and networking equipment of other firms—and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers—with a minimum of cost and complexity.

[John23]

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As per my knowledge If you have own a server and want to connect to the Internet, there are companies that will handle the connection for you. This service is known as colocation.

[WHUK]

Co-Location hosting is different from normal Shared, VPS or Dedicated server hosting. In all these hosting plans, the server hardware belongs to the hosting provider, you just rent some space or entire server by paying the applicable charges. You are not the owner of the server, you are just renting it. In Co-Location services, you own the server hardware and you keep server in some datacenter or with some hosting provider. Here you just need to pay the Rack charges, Power charges and Bandwidth charges. You are the owner of the server in Co-Location hosting.

[nitinslash]

As per my knowledge, Colocation allows you to place your server in a rack in our data center and share our bandwidth as your own.

[prophet25]

informative

[mrhbrandi]

Hi,

I did not know about collotion ?
Please let me know about some time

[TeamHC]

Colocation is locating your owned server with a Datacenter to make it available online instead of renting a server. It will help you reduce the cost in longer run.

[Addie.B]

When you as a client provide the entire hardware for your server and just require the bandwidth, the space (for mounting the server) and the power supply from the hosting provider, this is co-location.
Generally colocation is beneficial when you are planning for a long term.

[chicagorox]

Co-location allows you for greater flexibility and a much more reliable connection between your server and the location you are dealing business with.

[vpalukuru]

Thanks for sharing the information

[Matt]

Thanks for sharing.

[ananursing]

When you as a customer offer the whole components for your web host server and just need the bandwith, the area (for increasing the server) and the power from the host company, this is co-location.

[bill]

Colocation solutions may cost slightly more than web hosting but because you would place your own server in a larger company’s rack at colocation hosting providers, and share a company’s bandwidth, it costs less than bandwidth straight to your business. In the long-run this solution works out much better on a financial scale for smaller businesses. You can rent a server machine directly from the colocation provider or you may take your own already set-up server. The data center then provides an IP address, bandwidth and power to your server, the only difference is that you own the hardware.

[Webcs-Peter]

Think it's important the DC itself while choosing colocation service.