Re: Co-Location or In-House servers?

At 11:29 AM 10/10/02 -0400, you wrote:
>In your experience, what is more cost effective in the long run, renting a dedicated server from a company such as RackShack.net or buying your own equipment and connections? Your advice is appreciated.
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>Regards,
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>-Awais Bokhari
>www.Cititech.net 
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Unless there were very specific reasons for locating it in your own office, the arguments for co-locations are the strongest. Some of the reasons:

- higher bandwidth (they tend to have DS-3 and higher connections)
- redundant connections (more than one)
- better network configuration - if they are professionals at it, not inexperienced, then they tend to know their stuff and setup things most effectively.
- 24/7 monitoring - if it's in your office you are the one who has to get up in the middle of the night :).
- rapid response to outages - see point above.
- better software setup and system Admin.: similar to network config. issue above.
- scalability - if you suddenly turn into the next eBay, most co-location facilities you should be thinking about will be able to help you scale up rapidly.
- etc. etc.  :).

Cheers


Kevin Jackson

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