How is Physical security with data center?

Physical access to the site is usually restricted to selected personnel. Video camera surveillance and permanent security guards are almost always present if the data center is large or contains sensitive information on any of the systems within.

What is this carrier hotel in dedicated server terminology?

A colocation centre (collocation center) (“colo“) is also called as carrier hotel which is a type of data center where multiple customers locate network, server and storage gear and interconnect to a variety of telecommunications and other network service provider(s) with a minimum of cost and complexity.

Can you give me address of carrier hotel?

You can visit Carrier Hotel at 56 Marietta in downtown Atlanta GA.
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What is the significance of this colocation centre?

Colocation saves both time and cost. There is Significant benefits of scale (large power and mechanical systems) result in large colocation facilities, typically 4500 to 9500 square metres (roughly 50000 to 100000 square feet).
With IT and communications facilities in safe, secure hands, telecommunications, internet, ASP and content providers, as well as enterprises, enjoy less latency and the freedom to focus on their core business.
Additionally, customers reduce their traffic back-haul costs and free up their internal networks for other uses. Moreover, by outsourcing network traffic to a colocation service provider with greater bandwidth capacity, web site access speeds should improve considerably.

Who are the major colocation customers?

Major types of colocation customers are:

* Major enterprises, who use the facility for disaster avoidance, offsite data backup and business continuity.
* Telecommunication companies, who use the facilities to interexchange traffic with other telecommunications companies and access to potential clients
* Web commerce companies, who use the facilities for a safe environment and cost-effective, redundant connections to the Internet

Now mostly peoples purchase VPS’ instead of dedicated servers so What will be the future of the dedicated servers market.

Put your suggestion here.

The resources are limited in a VPS as compared to a Dedicated server so for those who need more resources will definitely opt a dedicated server.

I don’t think that VPs will fully replace dedicated servers

I think Dedicated Servers are here to stay. Although isolated, with a VPS you are basically sharing the resources of a single dedicated server between all of the VPSs hosted on it.

I think VPS is a good option for the person not completely ready for the dedicated server

From studying hosting packages offered by a number of companies, I can figure out that VPS isn’t really popular, as the majority of hosts offer shared-reseller-dedicated plans

I think dedicated servers are here to stay, but as we all know they are getting more and more powerful and the market is FULL of people selling them, so its getting to the point where companies have to be creative to find a niche in the market.

Before more and more people purchase VPS’ instead of dedicated servers but i think now the ending era of VPS because of 2 factors.
1) The price of a dedicated server is lower and lower.
2) The price of VPS software is too high.

what u think?

I do not agree with this because dedicated server are still costly affair and VPS hosting is cheap and good low cost solution.

There is plenty of VPS software available that is free, specifically freevps. The problem is generally the free software is not nearly production ready.

What are the advantages and the disadvantages between Colocation & Dedicated hosting in your opinion.which you like better and which to choose?

The difference in that a dedi is served by the host unlike the colo. And host pays the the employees of the datacenter for its serving (in case of breaking something). If something has broken in the colo you have to go to the datacenter and repair it yourself.

You choose colocation if you would like to have more flexibility in managing your server not only in terms of software but even in hardware. This is applicable if you would like to upgrade or attach peripherals to your server.

With colocation, you do own your hardware, but remember… that also means you will be responsible for any failures. If you rent a dedicated server, your provider will take care of any costs for you.

Colocation means you provide your own server and can configure it any way you want, but ultimately makes you responsible for your hardware and any failures. Also unless you pay for management you need to know how to run your own server and do things like backups and configurations of OS and things like that.

Unlike colocation, Dedicated servers are the responsibility of the hosting provider. They will usually manage the box for you and help with installations and reboots. They are also responsible for hardware failures.

Usually you are better off with a Dedicated Server or VPS unless you have vast experience and can manage your own server and it’s hardware.

Dedicated is renting a server, where the host provides all the hardware, connections to the net, and so on. Colo means you go out and buy a server and pay the colo provider to lease space in a rack in their data center, and hook your box up to the net.

I was just wondering what those with dedicated servers use for backup solutions. Is RAID1 really enough? Do you use some kind of NAS?

RAID is not a backup solution. You should have another drive for backup whether that be on the server or elsewhere.

For ourselves as well as our clients cpwebhosting.net use a complete bare metal recovery solution that allows us to recover our servers as well as those of our clients in less then 30 minutes from a completed server crash.

I think RAID1 is enough and never use any other form of backup. Even RAID5 would be better than RAID1, but both are prone to hackers defacing data. An actual backup somewhere else would allow you to restore data after a server compromise.

I have a server with only one IP address but now I want more IP. how can I add extra IPs.

You receive a server with only one IP address. If it is allowed by the plan you signed up with, you can always send requests for additional IPs from your cp. To send a request for an extra range of IPs:

1. Go to the Dedicated Servers/Manage Servers menu
2. Choose the server you want to add IPs to
3. On the next page, click Add Extra IP(s)
4. Fill in the number of IPs you want to add.