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Friday, January 6, 2012

How Much Space Do You Need To Make Sure You Have For Collocation?

By Bert Carr


You can imply the idea of collocation if you have got an expanding business, which will provide a great security of your hardware. To protect your hardware from being theft, vandalism and fire you can rely on colocation services. It will provide an independent server which will provide a constant high speed net connection via the server. This is a provision of space for a consumer's telecommunications equipment on the Internet provider's premises. the servers are classified in different mental racks that was built to serve the purpose. those companies which are in need to take a complete control over their server can take the help of co-location. You can access the help of collocation if you can specify your need of location or, space.

Bandwidth

there is a misunderstanding among the general mass about the term bandwidth. the number of bits transmitted via a line is known as the bandwidth. Bandwidth is usually expressed in Kbps, Gbps pr Mbps. Most of the collocation providers expect customers with a monthly level of usage. Other providers also offer burstable bandwidth. The providers will not give a protection from the hackers, so if you are a beginner then it will be good for you to avoid the brustrable bandwidth. If someone has compromised your connection, it can result to excessive use and overcharges. People think that it is better to have more bandwidth then the requirement.This is far from the truth. To transfer a large amount of data in a regular basis or, if you got a large number of visitors in your server, then you need more bandwidth.

It is better to start with a 1 or 2 Mbps connection, and increase it gradually as needed.

Rackspace

Another type of space which you should think about is the rack space. Compared to bandwidth, this is the physical space needed for the servers. Sometimes, businessmen after taking the decision of collocation forget about the term the rack space. Another name of Rack space is 1U. 1U means one rack unit. You have to consider some features while discussing about the rack space:

1. Number of the rack space used. 2.The rack spaces for VPN devices, Ethernet switches, KVM devices and other equipment. 3. The rack space that is used in the power management. 4.The rack spaces which are reserved for future use when the business has expanded and more equipment is needed.

Other Equipment

You have consider the some other requirements beside the rack space and the bandwidth. Some of the equipment you will need to purchase are switches, routers, content filters, IPS, firewall devices and many others. It will be a deed of fool if you trust on the collocation company to take care of these matters. Always ask questions which will give you the answers. You have to make a habit to avoid assuming things as it can bring you a bad consequence. To make you cope with the new network the collocation company will provide one of their staffs who will help you to settle down.




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