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		electric_mayhem on Nov 19, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Advice on Colocating Servers? Colo is fraught with peril. Do your due diligence in vetting any company before committing your gear and uptime to their care. There’s a whole lot of clowns operating as colo resellers. And by clowns I mean a lot of them range from incompetent to outright scammy.

trebligdivad on Nov 19, 2021 | [–]

Yeh, make sure they can actually provide the amount of power and cooling you contract for

james_in_the_uk on Nov 19, 2021 | [–]

Even the honest ones sometimes get it wrong. No fun if your kit is in their facility and they go under. Doesn't happen too often thankfully (and to be fair could happen to a smaller VPS provider too, AWS less likely).

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