Co-Location Hosting: Do You Need It For Your Business? Did you know that co-location (colo) hosting is a great choice for your business website? Yes, it is indeed. A colo is a data center facility in which a business or individual can rent rack space for their own servers and other computing hardware. Typically, a colo provides the building, cooling, power, bandwidth and physical security while the customer (you) providesthe servers and storage. Space in the facility is often leased by the rack, cabinet, cage or room. QuickHostUK’s colocation (colo) hosting has extended their offerings to include fully managed services that support their customers by also managing and monitoring the server and operating system.
When you have your equipment hosted with co-location hosting, owners of the data centers take the responsibility to preserve the infrastructure and perimeter network security. You don’t need to worry about the physical security,