lets take OXEO VS COLOGROUP for example
billing structures
-Oxeo
Dell Poweredge 1.1GHZ Pentium III, 512MB RAM, 36GB SCSI
Total B/W MONTHLY 500 GB TRANSFER
$1100 U.S. A MONTH
now take cologroup
-Cologroup
Dual p3 1ghz, dual 60 gig hd's, 1 gig of ram ($200 - $300 / mo)
$40 - $100 PER MBPS (300GB TRANSFER / MO)
Cologroup also has "remote" booters, so when your box locks up, you can login to a web panel and reboot a box.
So...which is more worthwhile?
if you can not afford a cologroup dedicated box at the prices above, you should not be in this business. they even manage the servers for you
get one of the cologroup admins to login to my box and post the uptime, its been up no problems for 6 or 7 months straight, if not more