> The background stress of knowing that at any point I might have to wake up, haul my ass down to a colo, and swap a motherboard just got to me. I would miss m

> The background stress of knowing that at any point I might have to wake up, haul my ass down to a colo, and swap a motherboard just got to me. I would miss mine terribly. I couldn't afford colo and hosted on VPS for a while but just didn't cut it. The Cloud is the same. Kind of like having two monitors and downgrading to only one. In all honesty how often does that requirement come about? Did you not have fail over? 2u is mandatory if you want to fully exercise colo, 4u is ideal. > If there's a hardware failure, it's not my problem. It's such a relief! Not for me, if AWS or Azure fall over I'm at the mercy of the engineers to fix which could take hours just due to the processes standing up the cloud. And when those occurrences happen its normally fatal. If the same happens in colo their are only three reasons. Datacentre, Server or DDoS Granted you can either live on the edge and having no spare hardware and hope they don't die. Or have kit ready to ship and rack. My colo servers are eight hours from me and always happy to jump down to my rack to fix whatever. But I do respect your opinion because I don't know the variables you live in. Colo forever with me.