With colocation, you own the servers and rent secure, powered, cooled and connected space in a data centre to house them. With cloud (IaaS), you rent virtual compute, storage and networking and don't own any hardware at all. Colocation gives maximum control and predictable cost at scale; cloud gives speed and elasticity. Many businesses use a hybrid of both, which we can also help you compare.

Tiers describe how resilient a facility is. Broadly, Tier III is "concurrently maintainable" — you can service equipment without downtime — while Tier IV is "fault tolerant", with full redundancy so a single failure won't take you offline. Higher tiers cost more, so the right choice depends on how critical your workloads are. We list the tier and SLA for every facility so you can match it to your needs.

Yes. If your data must stay within India to meet RBI, DPDP or sector-specific requirements, we shortlist facilities located in India with the right certifications (such as ISO 27001) and audited controls. We factor compliance into matching from the start, rather than leaving it as an afterthought. This is general guidance — final compliance should be confirmed with your advisors.

Yes. We help you set up a geographically separate DR site or backup-as-a-service with defined RPO (how much data you can afford to lose) and RTO (how quickly you must recover) targets, so your business keeps running if the primary site fails. We can pair DR with your primary colocation or cloud for a complete resilience plan.

Colocation is typically priced by rack or by power draw (per kW) per month, plus connectivity and any remote-hands support. Cloud and managed hosting are priced by instance size, resources and management level. Location, tier and contract term all affect the rate. The comparison shows indicative pricing so you can gauge the range before a formal quote — figures here are illustrative.