Colocation and its basics you need to know
Publisher: Psychz Networks, August 01,2018So imagine you are a medium size company who is into the e-commerce business. The most important stuff you need is the server machines to run your business. Now imagine having all those servers and equipment housed inside your office space. It might just serve the purpose as long as space is owned by you and your customer size is not expected to grow. However, this is not the case with any business. They are meant to grow.
So, if the business grows and also you do not own the space, the biggest challenge you may have to face is when you need to expand or relocate your equipment.
There are options where you can go for simple hosting. However, if you have your own IT department and the equipment then it is not so feasible to get rid of them both.
Colocation is just the right solution for such users where they can place their machines in Data Center that offers Colocation service and you can only pay for the bandwidth you use, the power you consume and for the air-conditioned space. Once your machine is up and running, you access it much like you would access a Website on a hosting provider. The difference is that you own the hardware.
The advantages of Colocation is that they are cost effective in many ways and is highly reliable. You do not have to rent a dedicated internet line but you can share a high-speed line. Also, a Colocation center has many such lines for a failover method. The Data Center is also powered by generators as back up in case of a major power outage during storm or snowfalls.
Now we will look at the commonly available types of Colocation.
Cabinets are an excellent colocation option for your business if your overall requirement is not too big and you want something that can be deployed in a matter of days. A typical cabinet colocation configurations include 42U with adjustable-depth rails. It has standard Copper and Fiber connections deployed and power supply of 20Amps/120V.
If security is your major concern, then you can have flexible Data Center security Cage Colocation Options.
With this you can have a fully customizable solution that allows you to use a complete secure area of the data centers, enabling your ideal space, security and deployment configuration within the secure confines of a floor to ceiling enclosure.
This is a security system generally adopted by all the Data Centers. It is a two stage secured entry where the person once enters the first door cannot exit unless he/she passes the second security scan. Hence it is called Mantrap. The entry through a mantrap has to be in sequence. Which means that one has to close the first door and then access the second one to pass through.
To know more about Data Center and power consumption in it please read https://www.psychz.net/client/kb/en/power-in-the-data-center.html