Why Choose Colocation Over On-Premise?
Managing your own server room or data centre can be costly, time-consuming, and difficult to scale. Colocation offers a smarter alternative — giving you full control of your hardware while leveraging the power, cooling, connectivity, and security of a professional data centre.
Key Advantages of Colocation
- Lower capital expenditure – no need to build or maintain your own facility
- Enterprise-grade infrastructure – redundant power, cooling, and connectivity built-in
- 24/7 physical security – biometric access, CCTV, and manned entry points
- Scalability – easily add more rack space, power, or bandwidth as you grow
- Remote hands support – on-site technicians available for reboots, disk swaps, and more
- Improved uptime – Tier 3 architecture with N+N cooling and power redundancy
- Better connectivity – direct access to multiple carriers and peering exchanges
Challenges of On-Premise Hosting
- High upfront costs – building and maintaining a secure, redundant facility is expensive
- Limited resilience – single points of failure in power, cooling, or connectivity
- Scalability constraints – physical space, power, and cooling limits
- Staffing burden – requires in-house expertise for 24/7 monitoring and response
- Compliance risks – harder to meet standards like ISO 27001 or PCI-DSS
With colocation, you retain full ownership and control of your servers — but without the headaches of running your own facility.
Learn more about our Tier 3 colocation services at fast2host.com/company/data-center .