Co-location Server Hosting
In business terms co-location which is also called as collocation or co-location is nothing but a group of entities in a single location where as in computing it refers to installing application to run a data in a single process. There are good examples for this co-location such as virtualization, web hosting etc.
Another concept where a single computer can dedicate to your necessities is nothing but dedicated hosting which gives you increase in speed, control and space and is also more flexible than shared hosting. In fact the server administration is usually provided by the hosting company as the add-on service. Regarding operating system dedicated hosting supports any operating service on basis of the particular dedicated server plan.
One of the major advantages of dedicated server hosting is that it has got high powered networks from multiple providers and that is why people often choose this option as outsource. One of the major benefits of dedicated server is reliability because of its cost effective way of using more than one domain and the other major benefit is security which keeps your applications secure unlike a shared web hosting service where there is a chance of making your applications open to see.