Hosting and Colocation

What is Colocation?

With Colocation services, you leverage the infrastructure and staff expertise of the colocation data center operator by placing your equipment in racks, cages or private colocation suites. The colocation data center provides and manages the physical security, filtered uninterruptable power, back-up generators, cooling, Internet connectivity and network security for your servers.

In addition, you can leverage managed colocation services to make it easier to manage your data center needs through the colocation partner’s staff of trained experts. Colocation services such as remote server monitoring and control, managed back-up across geographically dispersed data centers, advanced network security and remote hands and eyes can significantly reduce the IT staff and overhead required to manage your data center applications.

Why Use Colocation?

Colocation hosting may be ideal if you are looking to run your servers in a high availability data center without taking on the infrastructure and staff costs required to run a world class data center.

You can choose to invest in the multiple outside power feeds, transformers, transfer switches, generators, uninterruptible power supplies, redundant HVAC systems, fire suppression, multiple ISP connections and a redundant Cisco network infrastructure required to deliver the highest level of uptime for your applications. Or you can leverage a colocation data center operator that has already made the investment and can amortize that investment across hundreds of customers.

Colocation allows you to buy your data center incrementally. Rather than invest upfront to build a data center that can meet your needs for the next 5 years, with colocation, you can buy your data center a rack at a time. Colocation also lets you leverage the on-site expertise and training of the colocation operator’s staff, rather than invest in development and retaining of data center expertise on your staff.

How to Buy Colocation.

Colocation can be scaled to meet your requirements. You can consider partial shared racks in 5U increments of rack space full private racks, and dedicated cage space or private colocation suites. All colocation offerings should allow 24x7 access to your colocated equipment and use locked cabinets to assure your equipment is fully secure and protected.

Three factors that drive you colocation choices and costs:

Space – number of racks or square feet of dedicated colocation area that you need

Power – power required in each rack – specified by voltage and current (Amps)

Internet bandwidth – typically measured in Megabits per second (Mbps)

At EasyT1.net, we partner with the top providers of Colocation Services and can help you choose the right solution for your business. From a partial rack to complete data center, EasyT1.net can help your team achieve the results they need for your business. Through our extensive partnerships, we have access to some of the most competitive pricing in the industry. Please contact us today to find out what we can do for you.