> How do you manage the hardware and how much savings in time/$ is there really? Probably depends upon how many servers you need. We colocate around 2 dozen s

> How do you manage the hardware and how much savings in time/$ is there really? Probably depends upon how many servers you need. We colocate around 2 dozen servers and between things like updates, maintenance, and hardware, we average maybe 1 work day per month managing them. By far our most common failure is just hard drives. We have a box of spares. Our second most common is motherboard failures - popped capacitors - from servers that are 10+ years old. Last time anything failed was about 9 months ago. Before then we went a few years without a single hardware failure. But back in the 00's we got a bad batch of power supplies that hand a tendency to catch fire - those were interesting times. The colo center is just a 5 minute drive from our office. And there's remote hands for simple things.