What is Difference between Colocation Center and Data Center?

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What is Difference between Colocation Center and Data Center?

Postby Meghasoni » Thu May 17, 2018 1:38 pm

What is Difference between Colocation Center and Data Center?

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Re: What is Difference between Colocation Center and Data Center?

Postby Shona M » Thu May 17, 2018 1:46 pm

Here are some of the key differences in between data center and colocation center –

1. Renting and Owning -

In data center, you need to rent the server equipment from service provider and in colocation center, you own the server equipment. However, in both of the systems, you need to be in contact with server provider and consultation in order to know what server facilities offered.

2. Affordability -

Expenses varies in both of the systems. In a colocation center, you have to pay for server accommodation and facilities like humidity control, temperature control, and fire suppression. However, in dedicated data center, you pay for server space and management of server systems. So both of them have their own benefits and disadvantages and it depends on you which one you opt for.

3. Responsibility –

When you own server equipment, then it completely becomes your responsibility and when you rent server equipment, then its maintenance and professionals’ maintenance become your responsibility.

4. Manageability -

Manageability is one of the major concerns of server equipment. In the colocation server, you need to manage systems on your ow; though in the dedicated server, maintenance is done by dedicated professionals of the server provider. In case, you think you can manage the work on your own, then you must for the colocation data center or else, you can go for dedicated servers.

5. Security –

It is a combative problem at the time of making a decision of hosting. A few network administrators thinks that it is vital to do maintenance of server in the colocation server; however some think that it is good to leave this responsibility on a dedicated data center solution.


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