Make a Long-term Investment with Colocation Web Hosting

Posted by dwspriya on April 28th, 2011

There are hundreds of options before the people now with regard to technological innovations concerned, especially on web hosting services.  It is one of the lucrative business that each every human being on the earth needs to have some kind of requirement from it. 
Web hosting services such as free hosting, dedicated hosting, shared hosting, ecommerce hosting, reseller hosting, etc. are almost typical hosting services which offer some kind of space and services offered.  On the other hand, colocation hosting is entirely different from other hosting services.  Colocation means a client opting for a hosting company to set up their server which they themselves maintain with ability to procure the hardware and decide which software would be running in it.  The hosting company will have the responsibility to maintain uninterrupted power supply, connections to internet highway, etc.    However, responsibility for all the maintenance services is lying with the client only.
As a business, colocation web hosting can be considered as a good option because you are almost sharing the investment required for a hosting business.  Since the client is responsible for the purchase of their server along with the software, a major chunk of investment is born by them only.  A good server will cost more than ten thousand dollars and a very lower end server may cost approximately five thousand dollars.   As a hosting service, your responsibility is to ensure smooth functioning of the server by providing a UPS for backup power, security of the data center whether, especially from fire and other calamities, and also to provide a conducive environment inside the datacenter by providing an air conditioner, and another small investment for a router which may be little above thousand dollars in the present rates, etc.   
In all sense, we can say that a colocation web hosting provider can earn a good income with a small investment.

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