Are you or he around LA? I'll give you a tour of our
4 privately owned datacenters and you can see what huge in this industry is
We have 30,000SQFT of datacenter space FILLED with servers and clients, and another 9000SQFT available for expansion. In just dedicated servers we fill about 1 cabinet per week (24 servers). We're not Rackshack (ThePlanet) size with 50,000 servers YET, but we are definitely quite steadfast in our goals to get there!
His 7 servers will have no better home.
We do not colocate in someone elses datacenter, we don't rely on another hosting company or the datacenters staff for anything.
We have an ON-SITE NOC and Support Engineers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. There are
very very very few hosts here that can say the same, and some may say it and they lie.
I will
prove it to you in person if you are anywhere near Los Angeles or if you want to send someone you know to take a look

We are the biggest client (space contracts wise) in 530 West 6th Street ("One Telecom Center") in downtown LA. All our contracts are for 10 years so we definitely have no doubts of our longevity.