What is Colocation?
Colocation is a system where you buy or rent a server and house
it in a Network Operations Centre (NOC) with your server host. The
benefits of this arrangement are that your host provides the environment
and connectivity which otherwise would be prohibitively expensive
for a small company, and you maintain operational control over your
server and its facilities. Some of the main advantages of having
your server offsite in a NOC are:
Connectivity
The NOC is specifically designed for server housing. There are many
separate bandwidth feeds to the building from various providers.
This makes your server's Internet connection both reliable and cost-effective.
Environmental
The air in the NOC is cooled, filtered and monitored. Your server's
life is extended when it is run in a temperature-controlled, low
humidity and dust-free environment.
Reliability
The NOC is power fed from a reliable power grid with redundant backup
generators.
Security
There are security personnel on site 24 hours a day who monitor
the complex alarm systems. Only authorised company technicians may
enter the NOC. All other visitors have to be authorised and escorted
on the premises.
Skilled Staff
Should you need assistance, skilled staff are available to help
with any problems with your server(s).
What does Megaweb Developments offer?
Primarily, we offer colocation server hosting with the flexibility
for you to concentrate on providing your customers what they need.
Some of the facilities we provide with every server hosting include:
Bandwidth usage monitors
We provide bandwidth usage graphs for every port on our Cisco switches.
Realtime server monitoring
It's nice to see at a glance if all the services on your server
are running. If you wish, you can have monitoring on your server.
Secondary DNS
You can have your hosted domains seconded on our DNS servers.
Quality Dialups
We offer quality dialups on a 0845 number. You have full control
over the dialup user names.
Purchase your server through us
We can build a suitable machine or particularly if this is your
first project we recommend purchasing an off the shelf server such
as Sun Microsystems Cobalt Raq 550, this is fairly standard machine
used by many large hosting organisations. Please contact
us.
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