{"id":626,"date":"2015-11-02T14:56:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T09:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rackbank.com\/blog\/?p=626"},"modified":"2025-12-03T00:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:12:53","slug":"why-we-love-colocation-and-you-should-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rackbank.com\/blog\/why-we-love-colocation-and-you-should-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Love Colocation (and you should too)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-style: italic; background: #f9f9f9; border-left: 4px solid #0073aa; padding: 15px; border-radius: 6px;\">\n<p><b>TL;DR: Why Colocation Is a Smart Move for Modern Businesses<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eliminates the massive capital expense of building your own data center by offering ready-to-use, enterprise-grade facilities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Provides stronger reliability with 24\/7 professional monitoring, controlled environments, and built-in redundancy (N+1 or more).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ensures better security through controlled access, surveillance, and dedicated caging for your hardware.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delivers superior connectivity and network performance through a shared ecosystem of carriers and partners in the same facility.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enables quick scaling and expands capacity anytime without major investments or operational disruptions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Offers powerful infrastructure components like robust HVAC, ventilation, UPS systems, and high-power density racks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simplifies disaster recovery with pre-existing resilience and backup mechanisms built into the facility.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>There are 2.4 billion internet users in the world, according to a world bank indicator. This population is growing and with more people on-boarding the wagon of the internet there is more data created every minute. By the time the seconds hand on the clock reaches back to the same digit Google has received more than 4 million searches. Yes, <strong><u>4 million searches in a minute<\/u><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With the huge amount of content generated by not only social media sites but also platforms like blogspot, WordPress there is a need to store and manage this data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Data is getting created at breakneck speed making<\/span> data center<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> important but connectivity even more important.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The boom in data has caused existing IT infrastructure to become insufficient internally and externally for enterprises. Colocation comes as a next level strategy for most businesses that find it absurd to develop a Datacenter of their own. Unless, of course, if you are a multi-billion dollar company that can afford it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Colocation<\/strong> refers to renting of space to place servers in data centers owned by service providers. The obvious benefits come from huge savings on capital expenditures to build a complete Datacenter and its obvious operational expenditure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Think of colocation as parking your car in a common garage. The common garage owner built the garage, maintains it and ensures everything is smooth. You need not build a garage of your own, need not fret over anything related to having a garage of your own. Of course, the analogy would raise eyebrows about the practicality of such car parking garages but just extend it to understand colocation, and it fits. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Service providers could render services ranging from hosting, application hosting, database hosting services, etc. In colocation, they are just renting out space where servers and hardware owned by customers are placed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With professionals working round the clock, to manage every backend process to maintain favorable conditions at the facility better reliability is an obvious outcome. Depending upon the extent of service rendered you could get N+1(or greater) redundancy with Colocation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Although your servers share locations with other servers overall security of the Datacenter is enhanced. You also get proper caging equipment in place to secure access to your hardware.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Click to Read<\/em>&#8211;<\/span> <strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rackbank.com\/blog\/how-colocation-services-are-benefiting-small-and-medium-enterprises\/\">How Colocation Services Are Benefiting Small and Medium Enterprises<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Colocation brings in efficiencies and delivers better connectivity. Below are some of the prominent advantages of choosing to shift your servers in a colocation facility.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The obvious benefit of cost through economies of scale.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0You can increase capacity quickly, at low cost and predictably so even in the short run.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The power density offered is superlative; HVAC systems, ventilation, UPS, redundant power supply, heating equipment are the main building blocks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Businesses grow rapidly, this lean management of data centers helps stimulate growth.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Measures for disaster recovery are already in place, redundancy of N+1 (or greater) is easily available with colocation services.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The complete ecosystem of partners within one facility provides for better connectivity in this hyper-connected world of networks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Dedicated infrastructure to build your cloud strategy. A cloud storage is just around the corner once colocation is implemented.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Choosing<\/span> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rackbank.com\/blog\/understand-the-basic-benefits-of-colocation-services\/#:~:text=A%20number%20of,and%20up%2Dtim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">colocation services<\/a><\/strong> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">can be an excruciating decision to make. But yeah it is easier than asking your Board to give you $500 million to build a Datacenter for your company. Make a list of major points that you see are important, after all you are putting your equipment someplace else. For instance, proximity to your organization is one factor, you don\u2019t want to waste too much time traveling to the facility to troubleshoot issues(in case). 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