When a business grows its online traffic to substantial levels, shared hosting is often no longer sufficient in supporting its operations. The only way to maintain the quality of service for online visitors is to increase capacity. There are several options that can be adopted to achieve this. One of these options is to acquire, house and operate a server. This option however comes with very high financial and technical requirements that could be avoided by choosing to take up a dedicated server or going for colocation hosting. Your choice of either of these services will be dictated by the specific needs of your business, the plans you have for the future as well as the specs you need.
Dedicated hosting involves renting a server from a data center that will exclusively handle your business. The service provider commits to availing equipment as well as ensuring that you have full time internet connection. Along with this the service provider will ensure that their equipment as well as your data are safe at all times. When it comes to co-location, you will have to buy your own server and the service provider only supplies a site and uninterrupted connection. At the moment you may not see any reason as to why you should not immediately sign up for a dedicated server. Anyone not needing high performance equipment can definitely go for this option. Those that need specialized server features as well as higher specs would be better served by collocation servers. Otherwise they might encounter problems in finding a service provider with equipment that satisfies their special needs.
Colocation services will also work especially well for those preparing to manage their own hosting in the near future. Your interactions with the service provider will serve as a form of training with regards to the server operations for you and your team as you prepare to take on this role. The equipment will also be at hand when you need to move to your site and it will only require that you honor the terms of your agreement with the service provider.
Fees charged for dedicated hosting could actually amount to more than you would have spent on other options. Because you only need to pay for the bandwidth and other support services, you will frequently find that collocation services are much cheaper. You will be able to make a good decision when you calculate your costs by factoring the fee charged and the expected duration of service.
Server collocation also allows you complete freedom and access with your server. You may find software restrictions and controls with the providers of other server services. Installation of applications that do not meet the approval of the service provider may be denied.
As you can see, server colocation is best suited for those with specialty requirements or business that have plans to have their own hosting.
Dedicated hosting involves renting a server from a data center that will exclusively handle your business. The service provider commits to availing equipment as well as ensuring that you have full time internet connection. Along with this the service provider will ensure that their equipment as well as your data are safe at all times. When it comes to co-location, you will have to buy your own server and the service provider only supplies a site and uninterrupted connection. At the moment you may not see any reason as to why you should not immediately sign up for a dedicated server. Anyone not needing high performance equipment can definitely go for this option. Those that need specialized server features as well as higher specs would be better served by collocation servers. Otherwise they might encounter problems in finding a service provider with equipment that satisfies their special needs.
Colocation services will also work especially well for those preparing to manage their own hosting in the near future. Your interactions with the service provider will serve as a form of training with regards to the server operations for you and your team as you prepare to take on this role. The equipment will also be at hand when you need to move to your site and it will only require that you honor the terms of your agreement with the service provider.
Fees charged for dedicated hosting could actually amount to more than you would have spent on other options. Because you only need to pay for the bandwidth and other support services, you will frequently find that collocation services are much cheaper. You will be able to make a good decision when you calculate your costs by factoring the fee charged and the expected duration of service.
Server collocation also allows you complete freedom and access with your server. You may find software restrictions and controls with the providers of other server services. Installation of applications that do not meet the approval of the service provider may be denied.
As you can see, server colocation is best suited for those with specialty requirements or business that have plans to have their own hosting.
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