Server Colocation

All businesses have IT hardware they need to house. Whether it’s a handful of servers in the corner of the office, a larger estate of multiple servers or some racks in a comms room.

This requires reliable power distribution, cooling systems, and much more infrastructure for the servers to operate optimally. The cost of housing servers, therefore, requires a significant level of capital investment that many organisations simply can’t afford.

That’s why many businesses are turning to colocation. In this article, we discuss the meaning of server colocation, why it’s more cost-effective, and how it could help support your IT growth.

A colocation service provides engineering staff responsible for maintaining the facility and responding to issues 24/7.

We house multiple customers within each data centre, allowing us to spread the cost of maintaining the facility. For you, this means benefitting from economies of scale.

The data centre provides the building fabric, power feeds, cooling systems, generators, CCTV cameras, maintenance engineers and back-up servers.

Power outages and loss of network connectivity are major disruptors to IT operations, and in business-critical or customer-facing IT systems, any downtime will result in loss of custom and reputation.