guaranteed bandwidth kinda thing you get with colocation. Interestingly, hetzner's 1/3 rack gives you 2 TB traffic.

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If you need way more storage than that, I actually suspect it might not be that worth it, because traffic costs are usually expensive with colocation. If you need something like 10x16 TB, unless its a

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1 Server in colocation in general makes very little sense cost wise vs a Dedicated Server agreed, colocation will almost definitely get cheaper on a "per server" basis the more space

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By the way, if you're thinking about going with a single server colo, vs. a dedicated server please read: https://blog.racknerd.com/dedicated-servers-vs-colocation-which-one-is-right-for-you/

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This is oftentimes considered more when selling colocation vs dedicated, as the goal is to have recovered your CAPEX, and simply turn a profit while being able to maintain business OPEX. Bare metal i

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You're mostly paying for the support like the others mentioned. But what I never understood was why you get less traffic with colocation. I always noticed that you have to pay significantly more for t

Colocation is riskier/less predictable, there might be early 2000s hardware and each config is different so it's more time to deal with, while dedis are one set product that is less riskier/more predi

Most providers it seems like charge more for the colocation of a server that they rent out. How does that make sense

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What's the point of colocation when you can get decent dedi for this money?

In short easy enough if you are building it yourself, but off the shelf will be a challenge. Whether you can do better for the money is another question - 50 eur/mo will go far with some providers, an

https://serverius.net/colocation/server-colocation/

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