More and more businesses are choosing to relocate their company servers and network equipment out of on-site server rooms and instead are opting for third-party hosting solutions.

Companies of all sizes choose colocation as a strategy because it delivers three major benefits, you get the benefits of the Cloud, along with the performance and security of having your servers and infrastructure.

What is Colocation?

To sum up colocation for you, it’s when you utilize a data center to house your servers. This could be one server up to a full rack of servers. Here at TurnKey Internet, we have several clients who lease several racks from us that house their entire IT department and infrastructure. 

Now that you know what colocation is, let’s look at the top 3 key benefits that it can provide to your business: 

A predictable expenditure model

When you have a small to medium-size business, chances are you can’t afford to spend large quantities of money on your IT infrastructure. This could be everything from hiring a full-time IT engineer to setting up your network infrastructure. The prices you would pay could exceed what you have budgeted for your business. For example, one of the most expensive items with owning a data center or housing your IT department will be the power. The power that each server uses. The power to keep the servers running 24×7. The power is needed to run a generator or battery backup in case your office encounters a power failure. 

Power is just one example to use, but we’ve used power to show that you may not know the amount per month you will be spending on just power alone. Factor in setting up a redundant network, bandwidth pricing, or the amount you must pay your IT engineer to keep it running and your business could be looking at well over six figures. 

This is where a major benefit of colocation stems from. You can sign up for a colocation contract at TurnKey Internet and receive one flat rate for all those items. Your bill per month would be predictable as you would know each month how much you’re going to be paying to run your IT department. Colocation takes a lot of the variability out of the equation.

Better access to space and power

Does your office or business currently have enough space within it to run your IT department? Keep in mind that you will need ample space for the servers themselves. You will also need room to bring power into your business to run the servers. Don’t forget about cooling, batteries, and a plethora of other options you will need to run your IT department. 

Expanding your business often means you need to find more space to house your growing team. Do you currently have enough space in your business for those services? If not, colocation could be a great option, as all you would need to do is send your servers to the data center. They will take care of spacing and power needs. You wouldn’t have to worry about your office overheating from 20 servers running and not enough room to disperse the heat. You could also include this under cooling.

Network connectivity

One of the biggest costs in running your IT department in-house is the costs associated with keeping your network at 100%. This may seem like common sense since you’re running a business on the internet, but are you aware of how often your network can lose connectivity? This can be caused by a faulty network cable to a full-scale DDoS attack. When an attack or faulty cable goes down, your entire business can become crippled. How will you send the email? Is your site still online? Can you communicate with your customers? Most people only worry about these types of things when they can no longer use them, however, as a business owner, you do not have that luxury. 

You must stay on top of your network to ensure that you’re able to connect with your customers and vice versa. While yes, you could do this yourself, what if you’re not a fully qualified network engineer? Will you know all the items you will need to keep your network secure and stable? This is where colocation comes into play. Since you’re paying a fee to colocate your server, network connectivity is taken care of for you. Highly qualified network engineers will constantly monitor your network for any connectivity issues and remedy them should the need arise providing you with peace of mind.

TurnKey Colocation

Listed above are just 3 great reasons why colocation may be an option for your business. It will help streamline your business and provide you with a piece of mind that your IT department is being handled by professionals. 

TurnKey Colocation is the ideal solution for companies, service providers, small businesses, and IT resellers who want a stable environment in which to completely control their assets. When utilizing our state-of-the-art data center you can control your hardware, software, and networking to your needs without worrying about the supporting infrastructure. In doing so, you will immediately recognize tremendous savings while also getting peace of mind that your equipment is hosted in a 100% sustainable, green, and SSAE-18 audited, secure facility. 

You can see our current colocation offers at: turnkeyinternet.net/colocation 

While this is by no means an all-inclusive list of the benefits of colocation, it should at least provide you with a starting point to determine if colocation is right for your business.

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