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    Question Help with understanding Colo

    I honestly never heard of colocation hosting until now, but I don't quite get it you lease a rack from the hosting company and have to pay for all the hardware ) and such?

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    Depending on who you go with when you Colocation, The price they charge you will cover The server rack, power, and bandwidth. If you are on like a 1 u set up or something.

    Then if you go with a full rack most will have you pay for the switch, firewall and so on or you can lease it from them.

    As far as the server goes you would ship them your server that you own and they would put it on the rack. Or some will allow you to buy the server from them.
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    You're basically rent space for your hardware.

    Just keep in mind of Remote Hand Fees...
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    For businesses that they have their own equipment (servers, switch, firewall, storage), and instead of hosting it in their own office, they rent a rack/cabinet with a colocation provider and host all their equipment there, this is colocation hosting.

    Benefits ? A colocation provider or data center provider provides 24 x 7 electricity, backup power generator, UPS(uninterrupted power supply), Internet connectivity, security personnel, precision air cooling and environmental monitoring which you normally don't have in your own office.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Laus_ View Post
    I honestly never heard of colocation hosting until now, but I don't quite get it you lease a rack from the hosting company and have to pay for all the hardware ) and such?
    If you do not know about colo, then you do not need it yet :-)

    What are you planning to run/host and setup?

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    The concept behind Colocation is by putting your hardware in a data centre its in its optimum environment to ensure its running, both from a clean supply of air at just the right temperature to constant stable filtered and protected power and also huge quantities of cheap bandwidth with a smaller chance of an outage.

    In an office it might get flooded out or your internet connection might die, in a datacentre all these risks are (should be) carefully managed and controlled to ensure you're online 24x7

    There are also cost savings - if you just have a single server and you don't mind the odd outage, it'll probably still cost less because bandwidth in a DC is cheap, however if you have 40 racks of gear it'll cost a fortune to build a DC just for that and then more to run it, normally far cheaper to colo it.
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    It boils down to economies of scale (power, bandwidth, cooling at scale vs. doing yourself). Also, when something dies at 2:00AM, you have people in the data center that can reboot or change HDD's etc and get you back online quickly, vs. waking up and driving to your offices to touch the equipment. I tend to think of it as a no-brainer if a company needs to run on bare metal and doesn't already have the space/power/cooling in place (it's expensive to build your own), but may not fit every single use case. It's a great insurance policy in my opinion (of course have redundant backups).
    An added note, connectivity can be tricky in remote places if your business is located in a rural region. Colocating in a major city can help reduce latency greatly & give you more options (failovers) than may be available at your primary place of business.

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    There are also differences in accounting procedures between dedicated servers that you lease and colocated servers that you own. When you're looking to colocate your own servers, pay close attention to the cost of power in specific data centers as this varies greatly from one region to another.
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    Good point from @SenseiSteve -- and worth adding that power can be a 'gotcha' with some providers. Make sure you're comparing quotes 'apples to apples' as some companies quote power differently (if it looks too good to be true...you know the rest)

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    Quote Originally Posted by SenseiSteve View Post
    There are also differences in accounting procedures between dedicated servers that you lease and colocated servers that you own. When you're looking to colocate your own servers, pay close attention to the cost of power in specific data centers as this varies greatly from one region to another.
    I feel that the one point you missed @SenseiSteve is that when looking at colocation versus the IaaS market is that you eventually reach a point of "entropy" whereby not only are you paying more than you would had you have bought the same hardware in all likelihood, but the liability for the hardware, network, and virtually everything but management is shifted.

    This is why I like the hybrid model for enterprise - at least until I see the bill for the IaaS side. There are workloads that are just simply easier to offload to an IaaS for one reason or another; this is what we do with a lot of our public services although this model continues reexamination due to the general state of affairs currently on the IaaS business side.

    Needless to say though, if you don't know what colocation is there's a high probability you don't actually need it. Nevertheless, colocation in its simplistic sense is the leasing of space within a datacenter where you locate your network and connect to the internet by means of interconnections, exchanges, etc. where general billing is not actually based on the amount of space being leased but the amount of power being leased (i.e. 24kVA, 36kVA, etc.) although the reverse can also be true too.
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