Colocation Hosts: Choose One After Due Deliberations
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Written by: Ross Clay
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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 |
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Various infrastructures like a perfectly designed room with fewer windows, servers, properly installed power systems, data storage facilities, climate control measures, security systems like CCTV smoke and fire alarms etc are needed for colocation datacenters to ensure its proper functioning. Breakage of links and loss of connectivity can bring about huge losses to the business prospects of tenant companies.
Hence it becomes important to choose colocation centers cautiously after verifying them thoroughly. The most important thing you have to see is whether the Internet network is a Tier-I fully redundant and global one. You should only choose the facility which has rapid connections, adequate technical backup, sufficient security devices etc. It can also been seen whether the host provide remote hand service without charging any fee.
Colocation hosts need to provide on-site technical support round the clock. Technicians with adequate expertise should man the station even on nights to ensure that all problems are sorted out as soon as they occur. The service provider, if new to the business, may not be able to provide high quality service since experience is highly valuable in this field.
You should also evaluate the business practices of the colocation hosts like to what extent they are running the business profitably, whether they charge additional fee for cross connection etc. It is also important to enquire about the size of Internet connections that is utilized by the colocation facility, the security systems involved, the availability of power supply incessantly, etc.
In addition, see whether your colocation hosts are specialized service providers or they provide phone service, dedicated services or web hosting as parallel services. In such cases, you cannot expect to get quality service according to the charges incurred. Before you finalize the deal, scrutinize even the back-up generators, air conditioning systems and other paraphernalia thoroughly. To ensure the safety of your hardware and data, make sure that the collocation center has lockable cabinets which are safe. You can also ponder over how the colocation hosts can manage future improvements and upgrades without hindering the connectivity and also discuss the money being charged for such upgrades well in advance.
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Colocation Services USA has been in the field of server colocation for a long time and maintains a website about colocation where you can get answers to the rest of your questions.
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