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To tell you a little secret, the editor recently won an award: Shanghang Technology's most popular Award in the first quarter of 2019!

The reason for winning the award is that the editor is accosted the most times every day:

"Hello, do you have an organic room in Guangzhou?"

"Hello, how much is the server hosting per month?"

"Hello, do you have a cloud server?"

"Hello, where is your computer room in Beijing, please?"

"Hello, how do you host the server?"

"Hello, I'd like to host the server."

……

Yes, the editor won the most popular award by virtue of the dozens of accosted accosted on the official website every day. I believe he will be able to defend his title in the second quarter.

After being accosted countless times, the editor found a problem, that is, most customers do not know how to choose a suitable computer room. So this time, the editor is going to discuss with you how to do data center selection:

Editor's point of view: server hosting is not an end, but a means to support business development. So when choosing a hosted data center, the core consideration is the enterprise's business itself.

1. Business coverage

First of all, identify the areas to be covered by the business. If you want to cover South China, choose the data center in South China; if you want to cover North China, choose the data center in North China; if you want to cover South China and North China at the same time, and have requirements for access speed, consider deploying data centers in South China and North China at the same time.

There are two points to pay special attention to when considering the region of the data center: first, the closer the distance between the data center and the national backbone core node, the faster the overall access speed; second, when you need to deploy multiple data centers nationwide, you have to use a dedicated line to get through each data center, and you have to find a service provider that really has the ability to deploy nationwide. Many domestic IDC service providers are regional, but not many of them have high-quality IDC resources and dedicated line resources nationwide, such as Shanghang.

The second is the population to be covered by the business. The crowd here is not divided by gender, age, occupation and other factors, but the network used by the target customer group. If you use more telecommunications, you will find the computer room of China Telecom, the computer room of China Unicom, China Telecom and Mobile Unicom, and you will find the BGP computer room.

2. Business availability requirements

That is, the enterprise's acceptance of business interruption. ****

Although different companies in different industries have different requirements for business continuity, generally speaking, they do not want disruptions. Therefore, when looking for a data center with high network availability, the simplest and most direct screening method is to find the operator's T3 +-level data center (the availability of the data center is 99.982%). For more information on how to make further analysis of the data center, please refer to "what are you going to see in the computer room?" ".

If the requirement for business availability is particularly high, you can also find a data center at T4 level (availability 99.995%), or even deploy dual or multiple data centers (to consider the problem of connecting between data centers).

In addition, when selecting a data center to consider the availability of the data center, it also depends on the ability of the IDC service provider. The services provided by different suppliers of the same data center are different, resulting in different network availability to customers. Therefore, when choosing the data center, it also depends on the company qualification, founding history, service team, operation and maintenance capacity of the IDC service provider.

3. Business scalability

That is, to analyze the stage of the business and the needs of expansion.

For mature businesses with little demand for expansion, it mainly depends on whether the existing size of the data center can meet the existing needs.

For businesses that are in the stage of rapid development or are expected to develop rapidly, the later expansion needs should be taken into account when selecting a data center. If necessary, it depends not only on the size of a single data center, but also on whether the supplier's multiple data centers and direct connect resources can meet the needs of subsequent rapid business expansion.

4. Business characteristics

That is, look at the business characteristics of the enterprise from the perspective of the industry and its own strategy, correspondingly, what are the requirements for the data center, and then analyze whether the selected data center can meet these special requirements.

For example, if the business has high requirements for data security, it depends on whether the data center has an independent computer room and what corresponding security measures are available. For example, if high-density cabinets are used in business requirements, it depends on whether the data center can provide corresponding customized services, as well as whether power and load-bearing can be met, and so on.

The above are some of the editor's views on data center selection from a business point of view. Welcome to chat up with different views or other supplementary comments.

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