Colocation services, the basics
Web hosting comes in the form of many different types of service, such as free web hosting, shared web hosting, dedicated web hosting, server colocation, among pothers. However, server colocation provides what is by far the most effective and dynamic of all the services available. What makes server colocation the best kind of service possible is the fact that user actually owns his own server, rather than leasing it out, so he gets to have exactly the kind that he requires for his use. The server is then kept in data centres where hundreds of other such machines are also placed, hence the term 'server colocation'. In server colocation services, data facilities come provided with the infrastructure to house all these different computers, along with the networking and telecommunication facilities for keeping all of them online all the time.