Colocation is a hosting service offered by major datacenters and web hosting companies to let you place your computer servers and other IT hardware in a secure, redundantly powered, high speed Internet-connected facility. You can rent colocation service space for just 1 computer or a private locking cabinet (rack) sized just for your needs. Larger organizations and service providers often will rent colocation suites, whereby a walled or caged room is created that makes room for 100's or 1000's of computer servers. If your organization is looking for computer servers hosted on the Internet, but does not yet have the servers they wish to colocate - check out our new Cloud Servers offering and you can rent just computer server resources instead of full colocation.

Colocation facilities offer continuous power, redundant high speed Internet connectivity, and green-friendly, environmentally controlled air conditioning systems to ensure proper temperature and humidity to protect your computer equipment. You can often extend the life of computer servers months if not years, and maintain the highest uptime standards with your computer equipment by keeping them colocated with continuous clean electrical power inside a properly environmetally controlled environment.

There are many benefits of colocation compared to hosting your own IT infrastrcuture on site -- such as higher uptime, increased network performance, lower cost of operation, as well as superior capacity expandability. In a typical back office IT environment, if you suddenly needed to increase your bandwidth to keep up with more mobile sales staff access, or increased internet access to your business application, you could wait weeks or months from your cable or local internet company. When your IT infrastructure is located in a colocation facility, you can turn up massive amounts of bandwidth within minutes or hours -- bandwidth capacity that can be more than 10,000x that of a typical office cable Internet connection are readily available inside any colocation facility.

Colocation Service is a favorite among smaller and medium-sized businesses that do not wish to invest $100k's into IT infrastructure among their office(s) for things like generators, batteries, and industrial air conditioning -- and instead leverage the Benefits of the Cloud by colocating their IT infrastructure within colocation facilities. Many colocation facilities offer additional services, such as Network Attached Storage, Bare Metal Server Backups, remote web reboots, and on-site hands to assist you, in case of any issues with your IT infrastructure.