Key Benefits to Using a Data Center
Why put a server or a service in the data center?
Here are the four main advantages we hear from our small business clients:
Full On-Site and Remote Management
With 24/7 on-site staff and robust remote management tools, maintaining or repairing a server in the data center is significantly faster than doing so in your office. Plus, server-side maintenance becomes the responsibility of the provider under the data center agreement.
Security
Data center space benefits from best-of-class firewalls and online security, plus a degree of physical security—guards, biometric access controls, fire suppression—that an office space cannot provide.
Accessibility
By linking to multiple, major Internet backbones, data centers provide reliable, fast connectivity. Redundant power supplies, reinforced structures, and backup power generators ensure Internet and power outages (or even natural disasters) don’t disrupt your server or service.
Cost Allocation
Setting up a server or application in your office requires a large initial investment, and unpredictable costs to maintain and repair that technology. Data center services can spread that cost out over months or years into predictable monthly costs.
