Resilience and redundancy

A while ago, we took some technology phrases and acronyms and made them clear. Like CDR (Committed Data Rate) and 95th percentile billing. Now feels like a good time to explore some other phrases that can often cause confusion. What’s resilience? What does redundancy mean when it comes to technology? And what’s the difference between…

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What is Colocation & how does it work?

Colocation Hosting is a way of hosting a server and other computing hardware at a third party data centre facility. In most cases, the colocation data centre will provide the facilities, power, maintenance, bandwidth and security of the servers. You, as a customer, will provide the physical server and storage. Colocation provides many benefits to…

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What are Leased Lines?

Leased lines are a dedicated, flexible bandwidth, symmetric data connection, used to link two locations together. In most cases, the base connection is typically a workplace, with the second location being a data centre that’s connected to the internet. The internet breakout from the data centre is often resilient over multiple carriers helping to keep your…

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