Colocation Centers, Good or Bad?

     Is it good to use a co-location site for the storage of servers and other business systems or is it better to manage the systems within the company and to keep them on-site? There are benefits to both and there are also issues which each plan of action. For keeping servers on-site there are costs to keep the lab running and operational. Most companies will have to pay someone to control the server room and manage all issues that come with managing a server room. There is also the ability for the servers to be accessed more quickly when they are onsite than when they are in an off-site co-location facility. With an off-site co-location storage there is also the payment to reserve the rack space which will cost about 800-1000 dollars a month. While if it is necessary for a company to get have space and they are not able to expand their current server room then this is a viable opportunity but I would not say that this is an ideal solution or an answer to this problem. There is also the risk that the security of the servers is not able to be secured by the company as well and rely on the co-location company to manage the security of the facility.