While setting up a website for your business, the choices can be overwhelming. With so many providers on the market offering a range of services, it is often difficult to cut through the noise and determine the best solution for your organization.

If you decide to purchase your own server and networking hardware for hosting your website, the next question comes where to house them. Typically, there are two options. Either to build up an in-house data center within the company premises or in a stand-alone building; or you can choose to place the hosting equipment in a colocation facility. 

In-house data center

An in-house data center gives you immediate access to the physical server. Your own dedicated IT team can easily access the servers anytime for maintenance and troubleshooting. Besides, you can modify, upgrade, or expand the center at your own will. An in-house data center also gives you more control over the security measures. As your internal IT team is in charge of digital security, you can have more personalized features if deemed necessary.

However, for many companies, the cost of building up and maintaining an exclusive data center onsite can prove to be burdensome. The critical requirements for running a data center include:

• A steady power supply
• Temperature control
• Physical as well as digital security measures
• A fair amount of space to store the servers
• Additional networking hardware.

Many offices, even some larger ones, cannot afford the power supply redundancies that are absolutely necessary for a server room to operate. It can also be difficult to regularly upgrade the safety measures to keep up with the growing security threat.

Data Center Colocation

Colocation facilities came into existence to mitigate the challenges of setting up an in-house data center. Instead of setting up a server room on your own property, colocation gives you an option to keep your servers in a third-party facility’s rack and share their bandwidth. It helps you reduce the expense significantly while retaining full ownership and control over your servers.

Colocation providers such as Coloco take the responsibility to keep your servers safe and secure under their watch. They implement robust security measures to protect your servers from any external threat. These data centers also ensure reliable and redundant power supply, cooling facilities, and internet connections to guaranteed uninterrupted service.

If you are looking for a hassle-free and cost-effective way to manage your servers without losing control over them, opting for a colocation service is the answer.

Coloco offers a range of affordable, efficient, and reliable colocation options in the Washington DC and Baltimore area. It provides world-class security and 24/7 manual monitoring to keep your servers up and running without any interruptions. Get in touch to know more about our services and let us help you set up your servers.