Colocation Services

Success can be a two-edged sword. If you aren't prepared, too much success too fast can doom you.

But that doesn't happen to C I Host clients.

Here's what you're trying to avoid. Say you have an in-house data center or have your colocation server housed with a C I Host competitor. You launch your web site and within a few days, your marketing efforts start to pay off. Your web site gets mentioned on SlashDot.org or your software download gets "Popular Pick" at Download.com.

Your web servers start getting slammed with download or http requests. You are not prepared for the success and your web servers start dropping connections or your bandwidth gets maxed out, so requests for your data go unanswered and clients get tired of waiting and go elsewhere.

Because you aren't a C I Host customer, receiving more bandwidth from your provider will take 60 days at best and getting the new hardware you need could take weeks. Your site has lost valuable visitors, and it's unlikely that you will regain the traffic that your media coverage or success generated.

C I Host can provide you with instantly scalable bandwidth, so that you can have the amount you need, when you need it. If you have the wonderful problem of too much traffic, we have the wonderful solution of virtually unlimited bandwidth. We put you on a server that has the capacity to meet you growth needs within minutes – no waiting for hardware upgrades.

If things slow down, you can cut back on the bandwidth until you need it again, so you don't have to pay for bandwidth that you aren't using.

Your colocation server will be placed on a shelf or mounted to a rack at one of our Internet Data Centers. It will be powered by a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) and will be on a 100Mbps Ethernet segment (GigE available for $500/month with a one time fee of $500 for provisioning) connected to our core Juniper m40e routers.

You manage your server remotely via SSH, FTP, PCAnyWhere, Timbuktu, etc., and always have access to visit our data centers 24x7 to work on your server. We offer free "remote hands and eyes" for server reboots and notifications.

• Free Remote Hands and Eyes (mounting media, restarting applications)
• Free Remote Reboot & Power Control Devices
• Free Manual Reboots and Power Cycling (live answer reboot hotline)
• Free Colocation Server Monitoring
• Free Primary and Secondary DNS
• Free Console Monitoring and Reporting
• Free Installation
• Free Shipping (if you switch from a competitor)