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Originally Posted by minusonebit
Leasing equipment from a host is stupid, unless you are just starting out and don't want to lay out the cash. Anyone who is serious buys their own fucking servers. Its much, much cheaper. Most data centers will sell you 4Us or more of rack space with a MB for the same price that they'll sell you ONE server for. You can get four servers for the price of one that way.
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The vast majority of people in this business lease their equipment from their host.
I love how the guy who doesn't pay for his hosting tells the rest of us we should pay cash upfront for our servers and then pay to co-locate them somewhere.
I can rent a dual xeon for around $150 a month, and when something breaks my host uses their spare parts at their expense to fix it. If I decide to change hosts I don't have to have servers shipped around the country or worry about downtime, I simply have the data copied.
Or I can buy one from Dell for about 3K. It would take roughly 2 years of server rent to equal that 3K price, but by that time I'll most likely be upgrading to the next generation of server.