Colocation services are ideal for businesses that want to have their own hardware and software systems while benefiting from the security of their partial or total hosting in a data center.
What does a Data Center offer for Colocation services?
- Security - 24/24 Monitoring Servers
- Internet and Power Redundancy
- UPSs
- High-speed Internet connections and back-up solutions.
- Temperature and Humanity controlled, perfect conditions for servers.
- Static and Public or Private IP addresses
- 24/24 Technical Support
Can I keep the server at home or at the office?
Yes, but you will encounter many problems and risks. It is not recommended to keep a server at home or at the office.
Why and what are the risks?
1. Lack of internet redundancy. A data center has AT LEAST 2 internet connections from 2 different providers (eg: RDS and Vodafone), so if the internet connection is not functional at one provider, your server will still be online with a connection from the other provider .
2. Lack of electrical power redundancy. The data centers have at least 2 different power supply lines, in addition to the 2 power supplies and a generator, if one of the power supply lines does not work or even both, the generator intervenes and your server will be fully functional .
3. Lack of cooling systems, climate... etc. Environment controlled in terms of temperatures in which one or more servers must be kept. Servers produce a lot of heat and there is a possibility of overheating if the server is not kept at the correct temperatures, so the server can fail at any time or in extreme cases fail.
4. Lack of Static IP address or multiple IPs. Keeping the server at home on a non-business internet connection, the providers offer only one IP address and the address offered is dynamic and not static (fixed), so your applications will require their reconfiguration every time the IP address changes. A data center has one or more classes of static ips (addresses) that do not change even if you stop and restart the server, it will have been assigned a static ip address.
5. Protection against cyber attacks and firewall. Certain data centers, as in the case of Ebzor, offer anti-DDoS protection, Firewall against cyber attacks, so your server is completely safe. Without protection, your server/connection can be compromised or even stopped by attackers at any time, thus your server will no longer be publicly functional on the Internet. Nobody wants something like that, which is why Ebzor has implemented anti-DDoS protection and Firewall at the Data Center level in partnership with Voxility, which is offered completely free of charge to Ebzor clients.
6. UPS to prevent power fluctuations (which can lead to the reboot of the server, which can further cause even data loss)
Lack of experience for network administration!
If you don't have full control and you don't have experience in Networking, it will be too much to configure the network for your applications and for the server.
The Data Centers use professional equipment, specially designed for a high level of network power, plus the team with experience in the field of IT, Networking...etc Regardless of the Network request, the technical team will easily configure your requirements.
Technical support available 24/7!
A significant advantage that comes with the colocation service. In the event of a problem related to the proper functioning of a server or service, the technical support team can support you both with what we call remote hands and through effective intervention at the level of the server's operating system, if your server is down in the data center, support is provided by the team where the server is located.
In such moments of "panic" when the services no longer work, it is good to have a team of specialists at hand, who will provide you with the experience and skills to restore your services to good working order.
In conclusion, using server colocation services will allow you to focus your efforts on the main purpose of the business, without wasting time and energy with a lot of technical problems with which you are mostly not familiar.
It is about specialization of work, efficiency, saving money.
