colo

A petabyte takes up about a half rack these days, and renting a half rack from a colo is about $350/mo.

Its cheaper to have your own engineer and manage xx servers on colo then it is to have amazon.

For anyone who isn't a Google or Facebook but has large or growing colo/dc network needs, check out Cumulus Networks.

StackOverflow does it, you can do it too (they colo all of their equipment in NYC).

Some of the worse colo vendors aren't offering it because they're lazy or see increased income from higher v4 rental prices.

You are wayyyyy better off sharing the cost of a colo'd 1U with others to offset your cost, in almost every case.

Why systems survive so well in a proper colo environment over most homes.

I'd be paying an order of magnitude more than the colo for my servers costs me.

I started doing this after the last earthquake here in the bay area (which was centered near Freemont, where our colo is).

Why colo and not rent dedicated servers...?

I tried to understand the logic behind colo but I can't.

Somewhere in the range that your laptop will almost certainly never see even a single event, but a very large datacenter or colo will have multiple events a month.

Dedicated, Colo, Other VPS's if you must.