Colocate

gektor · Joined: 25 Jun 2006 Posts: 1

I want to buy a colocated hosting for my site but everything I saw is so expensive - it cost almost as much as to rent a dedicated server per se.

zylstra · Site Admin Joined: 10 May 2004 Posts: 138

What are some of the prices you've seen - for both?

maahiwilson · Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 9 Location: u.k

Hello
You own a server and you want to connect to the Internet.
Numerous companies can make that connection for you and one option they offer is colocation. Colocation has one primary advantage over dedicated servers... you retain ownership of the server and control over its configuration.
If this control is important to you then colocation may be your best route for connecting to the Internet.

Colocation Fees: Colocation uses a different fee structure than dedicated servers. When you colocate a server, the web host will charge you both rental and connection fees. The rental fee is the monthly charge you will pay the host company for housing your server in their facility. Your rental fee will be based on the height of your server.
Servers can range from 1U to a full rack. Most servers will fall in the 1U or 2U range, unless they have a large number of hard drives.

Connection charges are based on a connection average
rather than the total number of gigabytes transferred per month. For example, a 1 mbp/s connection means that for an entire month you average 1 megabyte of transfer per second.
One way of measuring the transfer is to take the amount of bandwidth used in a given month, divide it by the number of seconds in that month and arrive at the transfer figure.
Another more popular method of measurement is called the 95th percentile . With this method bandwidth measurements
are taken every 5 minutes. At the end of the month the highest 5% of readings are not counted, and the highest remaining reading that is left is the measurement used for billing.

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