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There is no joy, inherent competence or reliability advantage to owning a datacenter as a hosting company versus co-location. In fact, its counter intuitive since at the very center of things the facilities business is altogether a completely separate competency. You have to weigh in what variables are most important to you, is it facility, hardware, staffing, network- or all of the above?
There are a couple of good providers within this thread and a whole lot of bullshit and misinformation. Some with great facilities but lacking in support, some with garbage warm ghetto Colo, at least one without multiple core routers, several with sub-par network decisioning and a few that put together servers cheaper than machines at Best Buy. Oh, and many of those purported owners are just "lessees" or tenants.
Apologetically, my own site is significantly out of date. I'm not here to market so I will do without the spiel unless you request it personally. My purpose for appearance here, more than anything, is to educate because I see so many material misrepresentations... and the idea that being in the real estate business or having a cheap lease or retrofit on a legacy DC in and of itself as being a qualifier to great hosting is laughable.
For different reasons and different customers, everyone mentioned here is a match for somebody and all mentioned have some happy customers.
I suggest you collect your thoughts on what is most important to you and engage the hosts where the BS and attitude don't stink so obvious from a mile away. If you take your time and pay attention to the nuances of what hosts say and don't say, your final decision will become very clear.
Best if luck!
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