Colocation rack space - pros and cons

For a website, hosting is very important. If you have a very small website then there is no need to think so deeply about the hosting services. But if you have larger business type, you have to think twice on choosing hosting service for you. There are many types of hosting available in the market - colocation rack space based hosting is one of such. In plain words this particular type of hosting is a freedom to the user – physical rack space, software and maintenance is yours. But you house to a reliable second party and take the broadband connection from them with guaranteed undisrupted power supply. However in colocation rack space use, there are some disadvantages that deviates the users or the customers to select this type of hosting services!

I have found that people get little confused to select the type of web hosting after they have selected or completed the process to hire website designer and the developers. To make the things little clear to you let us have a look on some pros (advantages) and cons (disadvantages) of colocation rack space hosting:

• There are some cases when it is necessary that you want total control of your hosting to keep complete confidentiality of things in your hand. Then it is always better that you go for colocation rack space. Even you get the exact hardware and software as per your requirements.
• It is always necessary that your hosting service is always available with guarantee. There should not be any excuse of power cut, failure of broadband connectivity or limitation of bandwidth. If you choose colocation rack space hosting, your hosting partner will assure you these things with power backups, 3 tier broadband connection and unlimited bandwidth. You feel relaxed.
• Colocation rack space hosting not highly scalable; it is because it is not possible to improve the hardware or the software as and when required. Due to remote location and fewer number of service providers the maintenance becomes a headache. You always should keep your server with excessive resources. Besides that the service providers may not take the responsibility to even reboot the server in need.
• Colocation rack space hosting is not for the inexperienced, newcomers. It can be that you are plunging in the online business with no knowledge in the hosting matters or may know the things but not well experienced. If the either of the case matches with you, this type of hosting is not for your business as you may not completely use and maintain it.
• One of the setbacks that have pushed the colocation rack space hosting on the back seat is high expenses. First of all you need a dedicated team to manage it. Even your team may need to travel to the location of the physical server. Otherwise you have to pay extra to the service provider to maintain your server.

Anyways, you may have understood what are the primary advantages and disadvantages of colocation rack space hosting service. You may see that on average the points are against the use of this service! But does it mean people are not using this service! Certainly not! Today sometimes even working as a freelance graphic designer I face situations when my customers want advice about most reliable hosting. They feel sad that they are not capable of going for collocation racks pace due to shortfall of budget, but I tell them about the new service “managed colocation rack space”. With this new service you can simply use all the top benefits of this hosting service within your afford. Whatever cost effective the other hosting seem to us, unlimited bandwidths at low cost and constant availability of all resources are hardly 100% present in those services.