Colocated hosting
When one party houses their web server(s) at another company’s location for Internet connectivity.
The data center provides a space, a high-speed connection to the Internet, controlled air temperature, high security, high-redundancy, managed server solutions and more.
You’ll see colocation spelt in various ways - colocation, co-location, collocation - all the same thing. Colocation hosting providers are either the data center owners themselves, companies who rent space in the data center, or colocation resellers who are not located on-site.
Colocating your own servers at a state-of-the art data center can offer many advantages. There are lots of things to consider - start-up costs, your business strategy, number of servers you wish to colocate, bandwidth providers, choosing the best data center location and a whole lot more.