Collocation and Colocation Defined

[Colocation Overview]

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Collocation and colocation are often spelled incorrectly, regardless of which term people are attempting to use:

• Collocation is moving or or placing things together, sometimes implying a proper order.
• Colocation (sometimes co-location) is an Internet and telecommunications specific term. Colocation refers to the provision of space for a customer's telecommunications equipment on the service provider's premises.

In a normal web site hosting situation, a public web site owned by "Company XYZ" would reside on a server owned by their hosting provider and located at the hosting provider's premises. The hosting provider connects the server to the Internet, owns and maintains the web site server.

In a colocation situation, a web site owner places their own web site server(s) on the premises of the ISP or hosting company in a variation of the standard hosting agreement. In this agreement the web site owner also owns the physical server.

BHI specializes in Colocation services.