It probably depends what you measure. How do you scale up to a meet a relatively quick increase in demand? Will you lose customers during that time and how does

It probably depends what you measure. How do you scale up to a meet a relatively quick increase in demand? Will you lose customers during that time and how does that factor into your costs? I think, at least for some business types, colocation will usually be more expensive because you have to overprovision or risk losing customers.