If you are spending 10k a month basically on a datastore don't you think you could use a managed hosting service like Softlayer (IBM), Internap, Rackspace ... t

If you are spending 10k a month basically on a datastore don't you think you could use a managed hosting service like Softlayer (IBM), Internap, Rackspace ... there's also some smaller mom and pop datacenters that will image a server for you with x or y. You can chop that 10k into 2k a month for 2 large boxes on Internap (10gig uplink, 128gigs of ram, 16tb sata with 480gb ssd and this isn't the actual price it's actually about 250 less than 1k, no guarantee you can get the same price) There is a setup cost both from the managed hosting provider and from whatever you provide to install the datastore and configure replication and backups. Its easily worth it but there's work involved if you up to it it's not going to break you. It will make you stronger.