Scotland Online’s new colocation services are ideal for companies that have business-critical 24x7 web-server needs but don’t wish to be distracted from their core business activities by managing the infrastructure on their own premises.

Scotland Online now offers colocation services in its Tier 4 data-centre in Dundee, considered to be one of the premier hosting facilities in the UK.

Scotland Online’s new colocation services deliver high-quality web-hosting security at remarkably low cost.

Why Co-location? COST, EXPERTISE, CORE COMPETENCY

Companies with business-critical web-server needs, experience three significant obstacles when attempting to maintain their own mission critical Internet connectivity:

• Facility: The costs involved in constructing a facility with fail-safe redundancy at every potential point of failure, and 24 x 7 operation can be staggering.
• Connectivity:  Business-critical connectivity demands multiple redundant connections. Scotland Online can offer Carrier neutrality via 4 separate Telco providers and can also provide a full range of burstable IP bandwidth services.
• Service: Again, 24 x 7 operation and specialized expertise can be costly and technically overwhelming.

Quite simply, maintaining a business-critical web-server distracts businesses from their core competency and dilutes their business focus. Outsourcing allows a company to avoid the major expense associated with developing and managing the infrastructure required to provide facilities with fire protection, D.C. clean power, data backup, redundant connections, technical management procedures, and more.

Who should use Co-location services?

With a web-server connected to the Internet 24 x 7, the better question is, “Who doesn’t need to Co-locate?”

The fact is that from a cost, reliability and technical service standpoint, practically every company with an Internet presence should consider Co-Location of their web server or other Internet equipment.

Scotland Online currently offers a flexible bandwidth service based on a monthly traffic usage figure. This service is offered over both 10 and 100Mbit Ethernet connections and is fully burstable. Utilisation is measured at five-minute intervals in each direction, leaving and entering the infrastructure. The level of utilisation below which ninety five percent (95%) of the samples fall is the data transfer sustained usage.

Scotland Online Colocation prices on application.

Call us on 0800 027 2027 or E-Mail sales@scotlandonline.co.uk