Collocation web hosting
if you want to run a high traffic web site, or your web site getting popularity day by day, and you are planning to run special applications which are required for your web site. You have fully trained technical staff, which can easily run these applications. Then you are selecting a right web hosting plane, collocation web hosting. Your old web hosting plane is no longer with you, now you must purchase you own server. In collocation web hosting you purchase your own web server and place this server in any good hosting company or in data centers. You can set up your own data center, purchase your server, and host your site on your own server. You can also get benefits from the services that are offered by hosting company for collocation web hosting.

Co-location what do they mean?
In co-location web hosting, you purchase your own server and your hosting company provides their space to house this server. The hosting company will provides you the services of connectivity, but you have to perform all other administration duties. Collocation server is your own server, you are responsible for its day to day maintenance and hardware performance and you are responsible for its upkeep. You can also keep your server in the data center. The data center and hosting company will provides you the physical security of the server, and some extra features, nothing more. You can attach extra hardware to increase the efficiency of your servers such as routers.

Choosing a Co-Location Host – Some Checkpoints
If you thing that the collocation web servers is a good for your site, following checkpoints please keep in mind before selecting any collocation hosting company or data center.

Access to the server
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Ensure that you will access to your sever 24 hours a day, if you face any problem then you can go over there and troubleshoot the problem. Are they offers you root access permissions? The most important thing is, ensure that no one else can access your server in your absence. The server machines and other related equipments are very expensive, and your data is more important then any other thing. Agreement with them no one else except you can access to your server machine.

Security
Check out there security options. Are they regularly monitor your server, for avoid of viruses and other attacks. How many times they check your server status, daily or after every hour. Before signing agreement check out their security policy.

Backups
Are they offering data backup facility, is yes, then how often they take the backup. Are they working on daily basis or on weekly basis? Are they acquiring UPS in case of power failure? Ensure that they will provide these services.

Monitoring
It’s very important to check out the server status on daily basis, is it working properly, all the hardware’s are working or not. You must know each and every thing, before your customer informs you why your server fails during the night time. Ensure this your host will provides the services of Network Operation Center (NOC), through this service they will monitor your website, and tell you when some thing is going wrong. Check out their NOC, how they get service from this technology. How they will inform you what’s wrong in your server, by e-mail or telephone or fax.

Before selecting any collocation hosting company or data center, ask them all above points, so that you can not face any difficulty after signing agreement.