I hear ya man....
Some of the reasons we built out our own data center...
1. We control ALL aspects of our hosting (where the bandwidth comes from, how much bandwidth is available, etc).
2. Our offices are right next to our servers. I, or any one of my techs, can take 10 steps and be in the data center. Remote management is okay, but I never have to call some NOC monkey that can't even spell Unix and walk him through fixing a server that won't boot up. I can't tell you the number of times in the past that I've been on the phone with one of these guys and had a conversation like the following:
"Okay...type "ls" for me. No...l as is Larry, s as in Sam...NO...don't hit enter after the l...type ls, then hit enter...NO!!!...not CAPITAL LS!!!...Okay...let's start over...oh shit...never mind, I'll drive down there and do it myself..."
Now, if a server crashes, we can walk right to it and deal with it and have it back up in 5 minutes, where before, it was a much longer process.
3. I don't ever have to worry about about someone else's financial problems affecting me or my customers.
4. I can grow without having to move to a new cage because the cage I'm in isn't big enough.
Of course, owning our own data center does bring some other fun things to deal with, because now it's more than just servers and BW. Now, it's HVAC, power, extra monitoring, security, etc., but I wouldn't have it any other way
