What is Colocation and why do I need it for my Business?

Converge ICT's Colocation Services

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What is Colocation? 

Colocation allows businesses to place their server into another company's data center rack and share their bandwidth as their own.

Colocation Cost

Businesses pay monthly rental fees which would enable them to lease the data center's rack space. Colocation cost may differ depending on the required racks the business needs. However, colocation services are fairly cheaper compared with the combined cost of the personnel, office space, and energy cost that server rooms spent.  

Benefits of Colocation

Security 

Colocation offers maximum security for data stored. Data Centers are equipped with CCTV and monitoring quarters to ensure that the data and servers stored are. Colocation protects data from natural disasters such as flood, fire, and earthquakes. Leasing colocation space also prevents data/hardware theft.

Economy 

Colocation provides economy on the following:

1.  IT personnel - Data Centers have professional IT personnel who maintain every server, racks, and cabinets. So, you won’t need to bother needing more IT guys to watch over your servers.
2. Office space – Colocation helps save up large space needed by server rooms. An average size of a server room is about 50-60 sqm (for a small business). If you have a small office space in Makati, adding additional room for your server room will cost you 35,000 pesos.
3.  Maintenance – A server room often needed to be maintained by IT personnel to assure that problems won’t exist. For a bedroom size server room it would require environmental sensors, cooling units that both needed to be maintained.
4.  Energy cost - Server rooms needs to be on massive cooling systems to keep the server away from overheating. Air conditioning cost in a month would likely cost from 10-25,000 pesos alone. Also servers need to be plugged 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
5. Fail-proof – Colocation services enclosed their partner’s server in a climate-controlled data centers complete with full-scale monitoring 24/7 with IT personnel and CCTV. Data centers have machines that diagnose problems on the servers.  Data centers structures are bomb-proof, designed to endure extreme weather condition, earthquakes and fire.  Servers are also run 24 hours a day 7 days a week, making it for the data available anytime an individual needed to access it.

Data centers have their own generators that power the whole data room in case a long power outage is to be expected.

Ease of Service – Regardless if the business is small, or large, Colocation service will adjust to the scale of the organization. They provide support to adjust and scale the service based on the customer’s liking. No more hiring and firing incase.