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Enkrypted

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Sep 18, 2002
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I wanted to get some opinions as to whether or not this would be beneficial.

The owner of our company has been asking about having our server moved to a colocation company for reasons of maximum uptime. Where our office is (in rural area), we have experienced several power outages that have lasted for a few hours sometimes.

With doing something like this, are there any drawbacks to it? I know that if we move our server to a colocation area, we would have to set everyone up remote access (for Exchange we would have to migrate to cached exchange mode, create remote shares to the server through VPN, etc).

The major downfalls I could see happening is having to go to the colocation location if the server needed to be worked on for any reason. Can anyone think of any other drawbacks that might happen?

Any guidance is appreciated...thanks!

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