Co-location vs On-Premise Server Rooms: When Moving Out Makes Sense
Many Indian businesses still run critical servers in a room at the back of the office. It feels cheap because the space is already paid for — but the real cost shows up as downtime, failed hardware and the engineering time spent keeping the room alive.
The hidden costs of the office server room
- Power: grid outages, voltage fluctuation and an undersized UPS mean every long power cut is a potential outage.
- Cooling: comfort air-conditioners are not designed for 24×7 heat loads. When one trips on a summer weekend, hardware fails.
- Connectivity: usually one or two ISPs entering the building over the same route.
- Security and audits: access control, CCTV and fire suppression are rarely at the level auditors expect.
What co-location gives you
A co-location facility rents you rack space inside a purpose-built data centre. You keep owning and managing your servers; the facility provides redundant power feeds backed by UPS and diesel generators, precision cooling, physical security and — in carrier-neutral buildings — a choice of dozens of networks a cross-connect away.
A simple decision checklist
- Have you had more than one unplanned outage in the last year caused by power, cooling or the ISP?
- Does the business lose revenue or productivity when those servers are down for an hour?
- Are you planning to add disaster recovery or connect to the cloud privately?
- Will an auditor or customer ask about your hosting environment?
If you answered yes to two or more, co-location is usually cheaper than continuing to patch the server room — especially once you count the cost of downtime.
Planning the move
Size the requirement in rack units and kilowatts, not just “one rack”. List the carriers and clouds you need, plan IP address changes early, and schedule a cut-over window with a tested rollback plan.
Ubixe Infotech plans and executes co-location moves end to end — facility selection, connectivity and rack-and-stack. See our Racks Co-Location service or ask for a co-location quote.
