Tips to Choose the Best Colocation Plans for your Business

With wide range of colocation server hosting providers available in the market, you are often spoilt for choice when it comes to finally deciding on one. With thousands of companies promising best of services for colocation hosting solutions, it is highly significant to check their agreements before you finally sign-up a contract with one of them. It is often observed that providers lack in offering the services they promised initially to convince you.

Space costs, connectivity options and power supplies are most crucial factors to check while you are in the process of buying colocation server hosting services even if you are getting the best deal. An ideal service provider would be able to offer additional space, connectivity and power supply if you plan to expand your business in future. So, how to go about it?

Power Supply

Availability of power supply being the primary considerations, the prices for the same are decided by the provider offering these services. So, this is the reason you would not be able to negotiate much on the power factor. The finest and most preferred model for power supply is kW model power billing or metered power billing. Some of the service provider also offer circuit billing model, however this is not too feasible for the clients as it turns out to be too expensive as compared to the former one.

Space

Space Limitation is another important concern to pay attention to, when it comes to choosing an ideal colocation hosting plan. You get personal cages and custom suites in your budget. This is where the clients have ample freedom to select the type of infrastructure best for their business. But it is equally important to know the billing model that your provider will be charging you with. It is essential for you to know the exact costs that will be billed including power and space. This way you’ll be sure that you are not paying anything extra for your services and only that was ought to be paid.

Connectivity

And last but not the least, connectivity must be checked when you decide on your colocation server. You must enquire about the connectivity options being offered to you and how will you be billed for this particular service. You may get mixed bandwidth service that’s allows you to avail many carriers just in a single package. This leads to better redundancy and best speed even if the carrier undergoes a malfunction. However, blended bandwidth costs higher than the single carrier. So, the provider leaves it on the client to select the type of carrier as per the budget. It is also observed that blended bandwidth is usually not opted by clients since it required multiple providers.

It is not at all easy and hassle free to transit to a new data center facility. This is the reason that business are recommended to devise ideal plan. It is important to decide on the way the data is to be moved and the physical equipment needed. At the same time the client must have an idea on how long will it take to shift the entire set up. Whenever you are not happy with your provider, its is important to take the decision soon. Most of the contracts are made on auto-renewal mode.

So, you must keep an eye on the next renewal expected and if needed to move, it should be done well before in advance. Else, you may be charged for the next tenure too. Changing the hosting providers is quite common as there is no dearth of companies in India. With so many options available, one doesn’t need to compromise on any of the service factors that may affect the business directly or indirectly. So, make a move whenever you are rather adjusting with the services or the cost.

I am a Online Marketing professional at Go4hosting, an sales platform that helps companies attract visitors, convert leads, and close customers. Previously, Shonam worked as a marketing manager for a tech software startup.