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The Two Kinds of Colocation Failover

The Two Kinds of Failovers

Active/Active
  • Pros
    • Global Load Balancing (GLB) supported
    • Automated fail over
      • Less down time
    • Automated or manual roll back to primary in most cases
  • Cons
    • (Generally) More expensive then active/passive fail over
    • Setup is more complex
  • Notes

The “Big 3” Colocation Monthly Cost Factors

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.