I'm well familiar with shared & dedicated hosting, and with colocation as a concept - I guess I've just thought of colo as something only big companies with big

I'm well familiar with shared & dedicated hosting, and with colocation as a concept - I guess I've just thought of colo as something only big companies with big budgets and lots of servers do. I like the idea of building a single rack server in my apartment for a project, and mailing it away never to worry about it again. Good points re: abstraction of the deeper system layers though. I guess my position as a frontend developer is that every braincell I spend thinking about things like hardware and memory allocation is one less to spend thinking about the UX of my app. Abstracting layers away is a good thing - except when they leak, which is often...