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Definitions of Colocation:

5points.net offers colocation services for those who own their own servers.
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Colocation means a company buys a Web server but it is physically located in the premises of a third-party company that provides the networking. The company owning the server must provide technical support for the server but this is a cost effective route if you need to run a Web site on your own computer (due to security reasons, for example).
www.bized.ac.uk/educators/16-19/business/marketing/lesson/sup_glossary.htm
This is where the customer server equipment is hosted at the data centre of the web hosting provider. The web host company will typically take care of power and connectivity, while the customer takes care of all the data and work on the server.
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Renting a secure space with reliable network connectivity in a data center while maintaining your own equipment.
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Housing a server or servers on the premises of a hosting company, such as Pacific Internet.
www.pacific.net.au/customer_support/glossary/
is a service usually provided by internet service providers (ISPs) for their customers. Company’s place some of their networking equipment, such as their Web servers, off site at the ISP or telecom premises, to give them faster connections to the Internet.
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Colocation (sometimes spelled "co-location" or "collocation") is the provision of space for a customers telecommunications equipment on the service providers premises. For example, a Web site owner could place the sites own computer server on the premises of the Internet service provider (ISP). Or an ISP could place their network router on the premises of the company offering switching services with other ISPs. ...
www.planetech.co.uk/glossary.htm
Placement of several satellites near each other in orbit. This allows a single fixed antenna to receive signals from all of the satellites without tracking.
www.novastars.com/vsat/vsat-glossary%20.htm
A colocation centre ("colo") or carrier hotel is a type of data center where multiple telecommunications network or service providers, such as telcos or internet service providers, site their connections to one another's networks (points of presence).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colocation

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