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If you don't know, let me clarify a little bit for you. There are people who are creating hosting "companies" offering cheap services and then:

Actually, this host should be banned forever for not giving a shit when they he* was hacked and talking trash about cheap customers.

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And if a place is giving you 320TB/1Gbps month for $100/month is basically the same cost as what the actual cost of the connection is if not cheaper on their end.

What about the bandwidth is also cheaper on colo ?

I know for a fact you can colo 40+TB far cheaper than you can "rent" it.

or install any cheap control panel which comes with roundcube.

Not true ! At least in some European countries , you can rent Good server for $30 with good amount of bandwidth compared to colo its very expensive with very little bandwidth.

Colo can be cheaper than Dedi. Just depends on what you are wanting to do.

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Heh, my server is still up. However I have no idea where it's located, I just bought the cheap promo one. IP starts with 45.X so I would assume I am safe.

i give an example. anything big you want with colo can be done.

It depends on the use you are going to make. If you are a small website or a simple presentation site, you will rarely get ddos attacks. If you are a hosting company or other business as well, I think

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how can they even make any money out of these cheap server auction servers? are they perhaps losing/not making money from some products at server auction just for marketing?

Providers are able to use scale to drive down costs on dedicated servers - it's a lot easier/cheaper to have hundreds or thousands of servers of the exact same spec, racked all exactly the same way, a

* There is also more "downtime" on colo space.