> Colocation isn't that much better either because there are still situations (like corrupt filesystems or malfunctioning power supplies) that would require phy

> Colocation isn't that much better either because there are still situations (like corrupt filesystems or malfunctioning power supplies) that would require physical access to the machine. I disagree. You still get all those problems with a shared provider, recall Ghandi's outage?, DigitalOcean, Linnode's and AWS a week ago. Your also stuck in a tighter situation when it does occur. With years of colocation I have never encountered a power-out event within the datacentre. That's a potential seven years of uptime if I hadn't changed providers in-between. Nor have I ever suffered a corrupt filesystems and that includes myself preforming DR monthly via sudden power-loss cold-boots. Sure I accidentally deleted /etc/ once. The only issue out-standing is a failed RAM stick however it's a poorly server which I'm retiring in the new year. Poor thing.