Brief Explanation About Colocation Hosting

Colocation – It is a special type of hosting much similar to dedicated hosting, in which the client places their own server hardware in the fully equipped data center.

Many experts are inclined to consider colocation of individual services, rather than the type of hosting, because it is more like rent physical space.

The client server is placed in a data center by the web host. Mounted in a special racks and connects to the Internet channels of high speed and bandwidth. Not necessarily the client must bring a physical server, they may be separate components – processor, memory and so on. Often the client also rents equipment at the provider.

The data center is a separate building, which contains lot of servers. Each server is supported by the relevant department of the temperature and climatic conditions, protection against fires, failures in power, physical security, etc. Everyday, data center experts monitor equipment failures and operational efficiency.

Special services for servers, data protection, data backup is usually performed for a fee and not included in the standard set of services.

Colocation is not used for simple data storage or websites. Usually, its users are more than simple hosting services providers, which thus saving on the “last mile”. Also put on the colocation super-server, telephony gateways, mobile operators, telegraph, hubs.

Prices for colocation services vary considerably depending on the power of data center network connectivity speed, the reliability of the protection of the server room.

Often mistakenly called colocation services to the dedicated servers. This is totally wrong. Colocation is in a different of hosting services and could not be counted in typical web hosting types.

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This post was written by on June 1, 2010

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The Advantages of Dedicated Hosting for Online Business

If you run a blog or website, then I guess that you must have a good information about web hosting services. Between all hosting packages, are you familiar with managed web hosting plan? Managed hosting services gives a entire solution where a web hosting  provider is responsible for maintenance of  your servers and perform other administrative tasks.

There are Two types are available – dedicated managed hosting or shared managed hosting. Dedicated in simple it  means that you own the entire server to yourself without sharing with other users/websites. Dedicated Hosting is more faster but cost more. For most, the shared model still yields good performance depending on traffic.

Having Dedicated managed Hosting offer  almost uptime gurraranty with 24/7 technical support. The support and  server monitoring  for technical issues are usually much better than in other hosting servers.

It saves you investment for the purchase of your own hardware, software and maintenance related responsibilities making it very affordable indeed. It allows you to concentrate on your core business instead of monitoring its security and  maintenance.

Web Hosting provider can also provide some additional functions such as database hosting, private networks and some security products. These usually comes with services such as load balancing, database hosting, managed storage, connectivity, daily monitoring and reporting. This make sure that your server are guaranteed to always run efficiently resulting in optimum performance.

Some service providers may apply  additional price for physical maintenance of equipment. Some  packages also provide you certain control over the configuration of your servers if you require some control.

If you wish to have a best performance for your website, it is always best to choose a Dedicated Hosting managed service for your business.

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This post was written by on February 24, 2010

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Shared or Dedicated Hosting?

In this article we will discuss about the two hosting platforms, one is Shared Hosting and the other one is Dedicated Hosting. This article will clear the concept on how to choose a suitable form of web hosting for your website.

A Dedicated hosting allows you to use the entire server where you have complete control over its features and other web tools.With dedicated hosting, all the resources and the IP address is unique.

On Shared web hosting , several sites are hosted on same server, all these sites share same resources and have the same IP address. Shared web hosting is much cheaper than dedicated hosting as the operating costs of server is shared by different customers.

As i mentioned above, websites that share a server share all resources. This includes disk space, bandwidth and IP address.  Since each server has a limited amount of bandwidth that can affect the traffic of other user websites who are sharing the same server.

There are some risks associated with shared hosting. If any of your neighbors runs a poorly programmed scripts that run among it can affect the whole server. In extreme cases this can cause your site become unavailable for some time. Another risk is that if one of your neighbor have been turned off by the search engines (for spamming tactics, for example) may affect all of them who are sharing the same IP address.

Dedicated Server -

With dedicated server, you can use all the resources that you want. You can use it to host a single site or multiple sites. You will have access to the full bandwidth of the server and you can use as much space as required. Companies with large complex websites that receive heavy traffic must have a Dedicated Hosting. This is ideal for those who are developing new scripts and need to test them without affecting other sites.

How to choose -

For small sites i usually recommend a shared hosting plan. The cost is less and that can be important for small businesses and individuals. Large complex websites that receive more than 10,000 visitors per day should prefer dedicated server.

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This post was written by on February 18, 2010

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