Sever Colocation London | Why colocation instead of data center?
Today, most businesses don’t have the time and resources to manage this infrastructure needed to organize and house your hardware framework, mostly medium and small businesses. Server colocation is an answer to this problem; at Grid Hosting, we provide one of the best server colocation packages and infrastructure in the UK, especially if you’re looking for server colocation London.
We all have a pretty good idea that billions of people browse the internet every day, whether it is to solve some problems or just for entertainment purposes. Still, the fact is that the internet, without a doubt, has become a global marketplace, and a lot of businesses have seen this opportunity to target their specific audience present online.
To manage their online presence and business, many organizations and businesses have the IT-related hardware that they need to organize or house somewhere. Whether it is physical servers found in the corner of the room or somewhere in a room with a controlled environment always under surveillance to provide the optimal performance for their systems.
The problem is that to manage and house this hardware infrastructure, and many factors need to be looked at consistently. Let’s say, for example, you have a server room for your organization or business, and to manage it in a proper sense. You’ll need a team of professionals ready 24/7 to handle it, adequate air conditioning and cooling system, physical security infrastructure, and an appropriate networking framework.
What is server colocation London, and why you should go for it?
To put it short, server colocation is a service that allows businesses and organizations to house and manage their IT hardware infrastructure such as networking, computing, storage, security, etc., in specially designed data center facilities that are all managed by a partner organization. In this way, your business will save the cost and efforts of managing the IT hardware infrastructure on your own organization’s premises. This is an excellent cost-effective solution to the problem, as mentioned above. The way it works is that you will be required to shift all your IT hardware to the data center facility, and they’ll take the responsibility to manage it for you. They’ll have all the resources that will be required to handle the housed IT hardware.
The downside is that you’ll need to manually drive to the data center facility if you want to make some physical changes to your hardware. However, if you look at the advantages server colocation offers, this little drawback is nothing. Server colocation provides many benefits to the organizations and businesses that cannot manage the upfront cost and the hassle of housing their own IT hardware infrastructure. Some of the services are listed down below:
· Hardware management and support
As mentioned above, the data center is responsible for managing your hardware infrastructure. They have a team of professionals 24/7 on standby to address any unforeseen events that will affect your hardware.
· Infrastructure to manage your hardware
You won’t have to worry about the environment that is housing your IT hardware at the data center facilities. The company provides you with all the facilities that are necessary for it. These facilities include 24/7/365 Uninterrupted Power Distribution, Air conditioning, Physical security measures, and a team of professionals ready to manage and incorporate changes to your hardware.
· Reliability
Every business and organization has a lot to worry about other than their hardware infrastructure, especially medium companies starting to scale. Any unforeseen events such as power outage, server overheating, security compromises can lead to a lot of trouble. Server colocation is the most reliable solution to these problems that can happen. The company is responsible for 100% uptime from your servers so that you can manage your businesses without any worry.
· Cost-effective solution
Server colocation is the most cost-effective solution to housing the IT infrastructure on your own. The reason being that the company is also housing other organization’s hardware in their data centers, so the overall costs for housing the IT infrastructure are divided between multiple organizations, which serves both parties, “The data center” and “Your business” well. If you look objectively at the server colocation pricing, you’ll see that this is the most significant advantage that server colocation has to offer.
Different companies provide server colocation UK services and each with their different UK colocation pricing and facilities.
Why choose server colocation London services?
The server colocation London facilities are the most reliable service in the business sector. With among the most cheap UK colocation services throughout the United Kingdom, and here is the list of all of the strong points:
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An uninterrupted power distribution system
Choose one of the highest quality power distribution systems in our data facilities to maintain a steady and constant power to your hardware as per their requirements. Look for ready to go standby generators in case there is any power outage.
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Secure environment
Search the data centers with the most secured data environments with all the necessary equipment and hardware housing facilities. Ask for a team of highly trained professionals with advanced security solutions to protect your hardware from intrusions.
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Air conditioning and fire suppression
Have the guarantee of 100% protection from any unforeseen events such as fire that may damage your hardware in our data facilities. Don’t forget the dedicated fire suppression systems in their facilities. However, to prevent such situations from happening in the first place, they should have a high-quality dedicated air conditioning system.
Last words:
We at Grid Hosting provide one of the cheap colocation services in the United Kingdom, especially if you’re looking for a server hosting London services in the market with our 1U, 2U, 3U, 4U, and 5U single server colocation services that outshine every service in the market right now. If you’re in the market looking for a data center to house your small business or organization’s hardware, then our 1U colocation UK plan would be the best for you with the power consumption of 0.5 AMP, ideal for servers that don’t require much computing. However, if you want to go higher with additional tweaks services, you can always opt for quarter rack colocation UK services. We are dedicated to providing you with the best colocation services in the UK, especially server colocation London services; you won’t be disappointed.
