ENKI offers the Computing Utility to provide our customers with Enterprise-grade operations services, including the high reliability of AppLogic, almost instant scalability, best-in-class bandwidth, and expert system administration and management services for a complete solution that provides unparalleled value.  If you just want servers, check out our virtual private servers which come without full management at a lower, fixed cost, but still offer the reliability of AppLogic.  Servers provided by the average colocation company can't compete with our products on performance and reliability, and require that you invest significant effort in supporting your own computing environment as well as purchasing reserve capacity that you don't need.  Also, you always have to lease a full server, whereas with ENKI you can lease a VPS with as little as 1% of a server's resources and resize it as you need to, only paying for what you're using.

Can you compare ENKI's Computing Utility and Colocated Servers in Detail?

	Colocation	ENKI Computing Utility
Reliability	A server is a single point of failure.  If a single disk fails, a memory card, or a network interface, your application is down.  In most cases, an administrator will need to rebuild the entire software stack, from operating system to end-user application, and then restore user data.  Colocation providers may offer a fix guarantee, but it's only for restoring the operating system, not your application.  Failures can result in hours to days of downtime.	AppLogic will restart a failed server's software on a new server within 5 minutes, typical   ENKI offers a 10x money-back guarantee for unplanned outages exceeding AppLogic's 15-minute max restart time, which comes to approximately 99.9% application reliability (not just hardware reliability.)  All data stored in ENKI's grid is RAIDed for redundancy: the chances of data loss are negligible.
Security	Depends on the colocation provider.  Most don't offer managed hardware firewalls.  If you want security, you will have to install a software firewall and maintain it yourself.  100Mbps connections to the internet backbone mean DDOS attacks can overwhelm your server.	Active Intrusion Detection/ Intrusion Prevention firewalls with antivirus available to protect against hacking, viruses and DOS attacks.  Multiple gigabit connections to the internet backbone mean DDOS attacks are absorbed by the firewalls, not your application.
Server Cost	You pay for the server purchase or lease, as well as power and rack space.  Because servers are expensive and time-consuming to upgrade, you have to buy enough server to handle computing peaks and projected demand over the life of the server.   You're always paying for 100% of each server, even though typical usage is 5-10%	ENKI's per-server charges are  somewhat more expensive than purchasing and colocating a server.  However, ENKI only charges you for the computing resources you actually use, with all charges included in an hourly rate, usually resulting in savings over colocation.  Average requested usage of multiple servers per month results in quantity discounts.  If you only need 5% of a server, you only pay for 5%.   If you need more for a month, then you only pay for that month's extra usage.  If you need 1.1 servers, you don't pay for 2 servers.  This results in savings as you grow.
Other Costs	Colo providers often include fixed amounts of bandwidth ,  disk storage, and IP addresses with your server.  If you exceed them, the cost jumps dramatically.	ENKI charges a per-unit rate for bandwidth and disk storage, with quantity discounts. No surprise overage charges. IP addresses are $1/mo.   We want to make it easy for you to grow!
Performance	Once you buy/lease your server,  you're stuck with the performance it offers.   If you guess wrong, you have to buy another server and install it, which is time-consuming.	With ENKI's cloud, you can expand from 1/10th of a server to tens of servers, without changing your application or waiting days or weeks for an upgrade.  Our high- performance quad and 8-core servers handle the toughest loads.
Compatibility	The reference standard.  All software will run on standalone servers.	Close to perfect.  AppLogic was designed to simulate a physical data center.  The virtual servers in your VPDC function much like physical servers - but better.
Observability/ Controllability	With root access,you can control your server, but you also have to know how.	ENKI offer root logins to virtual servers in your VPDC, as well as management plans that eliminate the need to log in or know anything about the server.
Observability/Monitoring	If you want to know what's going on inside your server, you must provide your own monitoring.	ENKI  offers enterprise-grade monitoring at the application and server levels, to let you know what's going on with your VPDC and application.  We can notify you automatically if your server isn't working the way you want it to be.
Deployment	You figure out how to deploy and manage your application.  You have to understand everything about your server and the software on it.	ENKI's experienced staff of IT professionals deploys  your application in a virtual data center of your design, with full management services available.
Vendor Lock-In	None.	AppLogic's VPDC paradigm means that software can usually be run unchanged in ENKI's cloud.  This makes it easy to move them to other VPDCs or to a physical data center. Running applications including an entire VPDC can be moved to another AppLogic-based partner's data center with a single command.
Support	Colocation vendors usually only support your hardware and possibly the operating system on it.	You call the phone and we answer, with guaranteed service response times.  Our system admin experts take responsibility for your servers and software.
Intended Audience	Highly technically capable organizations more interested in price than reliability and flexibility.	Organizations requiring enterprise-grade guaranteed service levels without staffing investment, wishing to take advantage of ENKI's extensive data center design expertise.