I (well, those of us behind Mobile Colloquy, not just me) briefly considered having a colo'd Mac Mini a few months back. It was either with macminicolo or at a

I (well, those of us behind Mobile Colloquy, not just me) briefly considered having a colo'd Mac Mini a few months back. It was either with macminicolo or at a datacenter near where one of us lived (NYC area, LA area and SFish area, so decent variety, even if the focus of our search was on LA or SF). For our purposes, the datacenters that we looked at[1] wound up costing about the same as it would have to host with macminicolo. With macminicolo, bandwidth is expensive, while other places charge for the space on the rack and have much (3-4x) more bandwidth. It ended up being a lot more then it would cost to get a VPS or two (or even renting a cheapish, non-colo'd, dedicated server somewhere). So, unless you absolutely need a Mac server[2], I don't really think its worth it. [1] Can't remember where exactly we looked. I'll dig through my emails and see if I can find any information. [2] There are definitely some valid reasons for having a Mac Server. Stuff like Golden%Braeburn, http://golden-braeburn.com http://golden-braeburn.com, which, I suppose wouldn't need much bandwidth.