Difference Between Colocation and Dedicated Server

Dedicated server and colocation are technically the same. But, if dedicated server is equipment that belongs to a company and yopu rent it for your information, then colo is when you have your own server in datacenter of some company, where you rent a physical space for it, and not more - all management and repair has to be done by yourself, so it is only reasonable if you live close to the dc.

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Dedicated Server is where you rent a server from a provider and colocation is where you rent the rack space, power and bandwidth from the provider and provide your own server.If you rent a dedicated server you dont own the machine you just get access to a whole box, so if you cancel your payments or contract then you will lose everything. With co-location you have to own your own box and you pay for the space in the datacenter and the connections.

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