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ColockerDC
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Good Evening
I am a new member here so writing a first post to introduce myself and my company. I am part owner of Colocker Data Centre in Milton Keynes, a brand new hosting facility offering a unique proposition for colocation services.
If you don't know what a Data Centre is it is a building from where servers are operated for all sorts of purposes. The one most familiar to you is probably to host a website (or usually many websites) but servers are used for all sorts of purposes. The building provides a secure power supply backed up by batteries and often a diesel generator for longer power outages and very high speed communications, many 100's of times faster than home Internet, enabling the servers within it to fully utilise their processing capacity. The process of putting a server into a data centre is known as Colocation.
Usually a data centre only accepts what is known as '19" rack mount' equipment which is a standardised form factor which has been in use for decades. The manufacturers know that equipment bought in this form factor is likely to go into a data centre and they bump the price up accordingly when in actual fact standard tower-type servers, like you would have in a regular office, are perfectly suitable for most tasks.
We therefore designed Colocker around the use of this type of equipment. Each client rents a small 'locker' from us into which they can place any item (or items) of IT equipment they desire. There is no limit on the number of devices as long as they fit into the space. This makes the whole process far cheaper both in purchase of the equipment and the ongoing cost as tower-type servers tend to be more power efficient than rack mounted ones.
You have probably guessed that the name Colocker comes from the word Colocation and the fact that we offer the service in the form of a locker.
Anyway, that's enough about me. Hopefully I can offer others advice on all things related to the hosting market so feel free to ask any burning questions you may have!
I am a new member here so writing a first post to introduce myself and my company. I am part owner of Colocker Data Centre in Milton Keynes, a brand new hosting facility offering a unique proposition for colocation services.
If you don't know what a Data Centre is it is a building from where servers are operated for all sorts of purposes. The one most familiar to you is probably to host a website (or usually many websites) but servers are used for all sorts of purposes. The building provides a secure power supply backed up by batteries and often a diesel generator for longer power outages and very high speed communications, many 100's of times faster than home Internet, enabling the servers within it to fully utilise their processing capacity. The process of putting a server into a data centre is known as Colocation.
Usually a data centre only accepts what is known as '19" rack mount' equipment which is a standardised form factor which has been in use for decades. The manufacturers know that equipment bought in this form factor is likely to go into a data centre and they bump the price up accordingly when in actual fact standard tower-type servers, like you would have in a regular office, are perfectly suitable for most tasks.
We therefore designed Colocker around the use of this type of equipment. Each client rents a small 'locker' from us into which they can place any item (or items) of IT equipment they desire. There is no limit on the number of devices as long as they fit into the space. This makes the whole process far cheaper both in purchase of the equipment and the ongoing cost as tower-type servers tend to be more power efficient than rack mounted ones.
You have probably guessed that the name Colocker comes from the word Colocation and the fact that we offer the service in the form of a locker.
Anyway, that's enough about me. Hopefully I can offer others advice on all things related to the hosting market so feel free to ask any burning questions you may have!
