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the most I'd ever do is colo with the DC and get a cross connect if I want someone's network really badly for whatever reason. Huge corps are a little different, I'd colo with Datapacket just due to t

"We don't really know who owns what server, so a customer can colo for third parties and it doesn't matter to us--but we operate under the assumption everything in their racks is their hardwa

hetzner cheap price in

Spry had their own network so they couldn't even just power on colocated servers. Otherwise it's a fine gesture. But helping third parties configure software on the servers or helping them access a KV

I was once in a similar situation (provider going under, DC shutting everything off due to non-payment) though I wasn't colo just renting. The DC actually went beyond any contact and helped end users

I had a couple of cheap OVH dedicated servers, but they both got unresponsive in their control panel during reinstall and configuration. With other providers, I could have fixed the problem myself by

If you meet their minimum volume requirements, sure. DCs have power density requirements, etc. I'm sure you're not going to shell out $1500/month for 4kW A/B, an XC and transit just to colo a 1U.

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That's why you should colo with the DC directly.

In the UK at least, a datacentre would not be allowed to sell the hardware if they had good reason to believe that it was not owned by their direct customer (i.e. resold colo).

I would say however that both OVH and Hetzner prove that cheap can be good.

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I'm looking for a cheap VPS. Looks like Hetzner has the best deals, but I must aquire stable 100 mbps.

And even on OVH’s ultra cheap Gaming Range where their DDoS protection is extremely good for the price, they offer 250 mbps

not sure how many Colo providers are on here, if any.

Lets just face the cold, hard truth. If a computer can do your job better, cheaper and faster than you can, maybe your "talent" is not as unique and invaluable as you want to believe