Lumina’s Colocation Hosting services offer Businesses more Freedom and Flexibility without the on-site costs of running a data centre!
Collocation services are a lower-cost server hosting strategy where your business rents space for your servers and other IT hardware at a third party data centre. Typically, a colocation service provides the storage, cooling, power, bandwidth, networking and physical security whilst the customer provides the servers. Businesses are then responsible for setting up, configuring and maintaining their server moving forward. Colocation improves business operations by cutting capital costs and boosting the quality of service.
When you purchase your own server, you need the space, equipment and a 24/7 IT team to effectively run and manage the server. Security and stability are also required alongside proper ventilation, room temperature and more. With colocation hosting, you don’t have to worry about these details and the immense costs of maintaining your own server on-site are managed by your chosen colocation partner.
With colocation hosting, you can have complete control of your businesses software and hardware configurations because you are still responsible for maintaining the ownership of your server. You also have complete control over disk space, bandwidth, databases, and other features associated with server expansion. Colocation hosting also ensures automatic backups of your entire Web server on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis so that your websites are online 24/7/365.
Using colocation services allows you to eliminate costs of building and maintaining your own facility whilst also allowing you to retain the ownership and control of the servers and allows you to focus on managing business operations and improve products and services. You also receive full support which saves money in comparison with if you house and run the servers from your own offices.
There are also business reasons for needing colocation services. Whilst for the majority of organisations, cloud services are an ideal solution to their computing requirements, other businesses prefer to also use dedicated hardware and have physical access to its services and infrastructure, typically for regulatory compliance reasons, high levels of assurance on data segregation, or network access is required. For more information, read our blog on how can server colocation benefit your business.
Colocation Hosting offers Businesses more Freedom and Flexibility without the on-site costs of running a data centre!
Lumina Technologies offers colocation hosting by storing your server – however big or small in our secure and properly maintained colocation data centre facility. Our data centre is secure with 24/7 physical protection and ensures proper environmental protection for business continuity.
At the facility, your server will have dedicated Internet connectivity through multiple high-speed connections or private point-to-point circuits. As well, there will be automatic server backups, business continuity solutions, and effective server redundancy. We will also provide monthly reports on your power and data consumption and technical support.
You can access your servers via the internet. Unlike a cloud solution, you still own the infrastructure, and we simply manage it on your behalf.
If you would like to discuss if colocation is right for your company, contact us using the form below (or call 01442 500890) to find out more.