What is the difference between dedicated server and colocation?

[Hosting Tree]

Dedicated server and colocation are technically the same. But, if dedicated server is equipment that belongs to a company and you rent it for your information, then colo is when you have your own server in data center of some company, where you rent a physical space for it, and not more - all management and repair has to be done by yourself, so it is only reasonable if you live close to the dc.

The main differences between collocation and dedicated server hosting is that of ownership, if it is dedicated, the user owns all the rights and it is unshared, if it is collocated these are shared spaces that can be anywhere in the world.

The best hosting plan for you depends on your needs, size of your business, and of course, your budget. Obviously, having your servers monitored 24 hours everyday as well as providing technical support will cost more than if you were monitoring yourself.

[WHUK]

Co-Location hosting is different from Dedicated server hosting. In Dedicated server hosting, the server hardware belongs to the hosting provider, you just rent some space or entire server by paying the applicable charges. You are not the owner of the server, you are just renting it. In Co-Location services, you own the server hardware and you keep server in some datacenter or with some hosting provider. Here you just need to pay the Rack charges, Power charges and Bandwidth charges. You are the owner of the server in Co-Location hosting.

[serversea]

The following Link will serve better to understand the difference between dedicated server and colocation

http://www.colocationprovider.org/de...colocation.htm

[motorola4gatrix]

If you rent a dedicated server you dont own the machine you just get access to a whole box, so if you cancel your payments or contract then you will lose everything. With co-location you have to own your own box and you pay for the space in the datacenter and the connections.

[samdonna]

The basic difference between dedicated and colocation is that, In case of dedicated hosting one server if fully dedicated for one user. On the other hand Colocation allows you to place your server machine in someone else's rack and share their bandwidth as your own.

[serversea]

Well, to get the better understanding of difference between dedicated server and colocation, kindly follow the link below

http://www.colocationprovider.org/de...colocation.htm

[vpswebserver]

Dedicated server and colocation are technically the same, but dedicated server is equipment that belongs to a company and you rent it for your information and colocation is when you have your own server in data center of some company where you rent a physical space for it. All management and repair has to be done by yourself, so it is only reasonable if you live close to the data center.

[flyangel]

I'm tired.

[carolyn]

Dedicated server is where you rent a server from a provider and placement in which the rent rack space, power and bandwidth provider and offer their own server.

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