Technical brief titled 'Colocation vs. Dedicated Hosting' compares the business benefits and advantages.

The Planet, a privately held dedicated hosting company, today issued a new technical brief that compares the business benefits and advantages of dedicated hosting and colocation services delivered to small and medium sized companies. The company believes that as these organizations grow increasingly dependent on their IT infrastructure and require an always-up-and-running Web presence, the decision to host or collocate becomes even more critical.

The company articulates that the brief titled 'Dedicated Servers or Colocation: Which Is Best for Your Hosted IT' - weighs the capital expense of colocation versus subscribing to on-demand dedicated hosting. It also evaluates the costs associated with a typical colocation scenario, which include setting up, configuring, maintaining and updating servers, as well the staffing and travel costs incurred by IT experts who are required to travel to the colocation site for repairs in the event of a hardware or software failure. Further it claims that in contrast, dedicated hosting from them provides a scalable IT infrastructure with 24/7/365 support, rapid server deployment, customized server applications and an uptime guarantee.

"By offering an affordable dedicated hosting solution with a wide scope of products and services, The Planet puts SMBs on a level playing field with their larger, better-funded competitors," said Urvish Vashi, The Planet's director of product management. "By hosting with The Planet, businesses can gain access to high-powered information technology, backed by our world-class data centers and high-performance, fully redundant network. This new white paper demonstrates the value we provide customers with around-the-clock support and an infrastructure that is both reliable and scalable."