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2U server colocation means hosting your 2U rackmount server in a shared rack in Istanbul, built to Tier 3 standards. The SistemDC Business pla...

1U server colocation means placing your own 1U rackmount server in a shared rack at the Istanbul facility, built to Tier 3 standards. The Sist...

When choosing a data center it is natural to focus on the facility's features: Tier level, power redundancy, cooling. But some of these fea...

A colocation contract lasts for years and moving your servers is not easy. That is why the cost of choosing the wrong provider is far highe...

Discussions of server security revolve almost entirely around software: firewalls, patch management, SSH hardening. Yet for someone with ph...

In a colocation contract, space and power are concrete items; they are easy to compare. The real difference shows up when your server stops...

The hard part of moving a server is not loading it onto a truck. The real risk of a move is on the network side: the IP address changes, DN...

In a dense rack, power becomes a bigger item than the rack rent. Even so, most quote comparisons are made by looking only at the monthly ra...

"Wouldn't it be cheaper if we bought the server?" This question gets asked in almost every growing infrastructure team, and the answer is n...

The first sticking point for teams that decide to rent a rack is choosing the size: is 10U enough, or should you take 21U? A wrong calculat...

Comparing quotes for rack rental is harder than it looks at first. One provider includes power in the plan, another meters it per kWh; one ...

Between buying a server and renting one there is a third way: colocation. The hardware remains yours, but power, cooling, network, IP and p...