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I was actually going to suggest your drive colocation thing, but isn't the monthly cost a bit over the 50$/year budget?

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go with the colocation server for this.

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Just to name a few. Ideally you should consult to your colocation datacenter and ask which options are available at discount and which options they suggest to you. They can usually offer a better deal

Are there any LET rules for posting colocation offers? Price/terms etc?

I am planning to do colocation for a server, but I am trying to figure out the hardware I need exactly, the budget and my colocation requirements.

Yup, offering Dedicated Servers, Colocation and the whole pallet of services as well with our very own hardware.

a bit off-topic, @HostSlick, do you agree with qps just cuz you know it makes sense or do you happen to offer colocation too?

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However if all you need is storage, a 10x16 from hetzner will cost you cheaper than having to buy the drives, a 2u servers to fit these in, pay monthly colocation, and more importantly the cost of rep

colocation only useful if you are going for big storage.

I see some colocs are reasonably priced with some providers, for example serverius offers an extremely reasonably-priced server colocation for 1u-2u, but they don't even offer dedicated servers anyway

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In my experience colocation tends to be less susceptible to the lowest common denominator in terms of pricing. Perhaps people don't feel comfortable sending their valuable IT equipment to the cheapest

Hetzner colocation means selling rackspace. If its 19U you can pretty much use it to host 18x 1U dedicated servers and 1 switch. Naturally its more expensive, and its also aimed at companies rather th