Collocation Hosting And Clustered Hosting: What Do These Less Well Known Hosting Terms Mean?

We are all very familiar with commonly used hosting terms like dedicated hosting, shared hosting, virtual hosting, reseller hosting and many other terms used by webmasters. However, terms such as collocation web hosting services and clustered hosting are a little strange to most folks who may have no idea what they mean.

Collocation hosting is very similar to dedicated web hosting. The only difference is that the user (and not the host) owns the server. The hosting company provides the physical space that the server occupies at the data center, hence the term "collocation". The hosting company will usually also provide technical support assistance for the client under a "managed hosting" contract. This, of course, is considered a high-end hosting service.

Collocation hosting is, in fact, the most powerful and expensive type of web hosting service around. In a vast majority of the cases, the collocation provider will provide very little to no support at all. Instead they will simply provide electrical power, Internet access and storage facilities for their client's server.

There are those who would argue that in this particular case there is no hosting service being provided, but rather storage services. However many large businesses highly value this sort of arrangement and would not consider any other kind of hosting service.

Clustered hosting, another term for high-end hosting, refers to having multiple servers hosting the same content. The goal of this configuration is better resource utilization, speed, and redundancy. A good example of a well known website that uses clustered hosting is online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

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