Are Internal Data Centres Less Reliable?
Should your business run it’s own data centre or out source? Businesses have the option of keeping their servers in-house or utilizing the services of a colocation facility where servers from different companies are housed in the same facility. Not all colocation facilities are the same, just like all in-house data centres, they vary in quality and professionalism.
Colocation providers typically offer guaranteed up-time promises to their clients. As a business owner, you know that ecery second your servers are down, your business in losing money and customers. Since these facilities are typically more redundant than in-house data centers, they can offer such a guarantee and they have the equipment to back it up.
Few companies can afford to have redundant power systems for their servers at their location, at least not at the scale of a colocation provider facility. If your data farm at your companies location shows signs of unreliability, it may be time to outsource you server hosting to a more reliable, secure location.
Even a short interruption in service has a drastic effect on how customers view your company. The customer, the end user, expects 100% up-time. Customers in mission-critical situations rely upon your company and if these are your customers, a reliable colocation provider with every redundancy possible is critical to your company’s success.