The issue of support comes in to play. Tier1 colo remote hands do exist (in some places) but these people are totally clueless and don't know anything about your business. Unless you ask them to hit a reboot switch, they are capable of doing that. Plus remote hands aren't cheap. Why would you want to pay someone $75/hour who doesn't know what they are doing. Also do you think they are going to be monitoring your servers for downtime? Constant trips to the datacenter are annoying and the list goes on. Its not easy and definitely not for everyone. This is a business why not put it in hands of a professional company that will manage it for you. With a good hosting company your servers are monitored 24 hours a day with people standing on site just in case something goes wrong. Its nice to have support you cant count on that knows your business. Sure beats paying $75/hour to some clue less noc monkey. Colocating With a Tier1 also ties you to connectivity with their backbone. A hosting company can offer you redundant connections to multiple tier1's. All carriers have problems, scheduled maintenance and so on. Don't matter if you are on Verio or Cogent. Let nice forget about PRICE
