subject: Colocation Solutions For Your Server Needs [print this page] Colocation Solutions For Your Server Needs
Online entrepreneurs often consider owning a website that can bring in thousands of daily page views as the holy grail of their online ventures. This is only natural since this is the one of the reasons why online marketing is so important. Regrettably, lots of people are not aware that popular sites with a steady flow of hundreds or thousands of guests each day are often the cause of incurring additional costs for the owner. This is because maintaining a website with higher traffic uses up a lot of bandwidth. And bandwidth can be extremely expensive, specifically people who have smaller capital available at their disposal. Bandwidth is, simply put, the quantity of data that can be sent or received over a connection. The more of hits you get, the more bandwidth you need.
Colocation is a more afforadable and effective way of increasing your bandwidth. You still have to spend a little but the costs for colocation are considerably lower than other options. What takes place is that, essentially, you hire a company to store all of your website's important information on a server. The company will ship the server containing all of your information to their main operating centre usually positioned in a different geographical location. Once there, the company will then proceed to install you server into their systems. This lets you share bandwidth with the company providing the service. An example would be when you live in New York and you send your server to a colocation company in Michigan. The Michigan colocation facility will then install your server in their systems.
When your server arrives at the company's operating centre, it will be installed and an IP address will be sent to you. To access your server located in a different location, you can use the IP address the colocation provided sent you.
