Below are the “Big 3” colocation cost factors that will make up the majority of your monthly bill

Space

Space is the proximity that you will occupy inside of the colocation facility. Space is billed by the amount of rack space you occupy. It can sold in multi 1U, shared, or private half/full rack(s) increments.

Bandwidth

Bandwidth is billed by megabits per second (Mbps) circuit (sometimes less) and can be served to your rack’s networking equipment over a variety of mediums (i.e. copper, fiber).

Colocation vendors typically offer two different billing methods: capped and burstable billing.

• In the capped billing scheme, you are allotted a certain size network connection (i.e. a 5Mbps circuit). If you network activity exceeds the allotted threshold then you can expect to pay an overage penalty. Continue reading The “Big 3” Colocation Monthly Cost Factors →