Depending on your experience Co-location may include unexpected costs. Managed Hosting offers some advantages and removes the time and effort overheads associated with Co-location. The costs include up-front capital expenditure, hardware depreciation, overall maintenance and possibly network infrastructure.

Managed Hosting offers the following advantages over Co-location:

Reduced Up-front Costs

With co-location, companies need to buy all the necessary equipment up front, which can impact on a company's budgeted capital expenditure. Managed Hosting eases the financial burden, allowing a company to spread the cost more evenly in affordable monthly instalments.

No Hardware Depreciation

The rate of technological change in the server component market means that systems quickly depreciate. Through taking the responsibility of owning equipment Managed Hosting alleviates this burden for customers as well.

Zero Maintenance

In a co-located environment, a company must take steps to ensure they have a disaster recovery solution in place in the event of equipment failure. For a truly robust solution, a company needs, at a minimum, a warm spare for every component in the configuration on hand, as well as technicians ready to diagnose and address the problem. Managed hosting provides all the necessary equipment, multiple spares of every component and experienced technicians on hand 24/7.

Reduced Risk

The upfront costs associated with co-location, plus the tying up of funds into hardware, re-creating the network, hardware depreciation and failure, as well as hiring staff to man it all, commits resources into just one area of the business. In doing so, this inherently means a lot of risk for a company. Managed Hosting allows customers to have flexible month-to-month contracts so there is little risk involved.

Experienced Staff

Managing an Operating System and applications requires far more effort and experiance than is usually expected. Bay Hosting's experianced system administrators are dedicated to providing as high an uptime as possible and are constantly aware of the latest threats and vulnerabilities that may effect your service.