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What Is Colocation Data Center?

Usually, small business organizations prefer colocation services to enjoy the myriad of benefits that a huge IT department would offer them, albeit at the fraction of its cost. With a colocation data center, they can place their private server machine in the provider’s rack or cabinet instead of keeping them in-house. Not only does a colocation provider offer space for the client to place their equipment, they also rent out cooling systems, IP addresses, bandwidth, and power that the client would require to successfully deploy their server.

There are many benefits a colocation data center offers its clients. The clients’ servers are placed in climate-controlled data centers that offer very high bandwidth speed. Their network redundancy rate is excellent. Then there several contingency plans to eliminate service interruption in the face of natural or man made disasters or unexpected power outages.

Scalability is the biggest plus point of colocation. Scaling the service up or down on the basis of business needs is easy and the client can just contact the colocation provider to get it done. The providers house their clients’ servers in safe and secure data centers with multiple security measures in place, such as closed circuit cameras, biometric scanners, alarm systems, coded access, etc. This ensures complete peace of mind for the client.