It's tough. I had an excellent colo provider that gave a nice discount because of all the open source stuff my servers do, that didn't have me go through layers

It's tough. I had an excellent colo provider that gave a nice discount because of all the open source stuff my servers do, that didn't have me go through layers of trained monkeys to communicate with someone technical, that communicated well through email rather than through billing. Unfortunately, they closed very recently and I'm just now looking for a new home for that collection of servers. Another colo I wish I could still recommend is Turnkey Internet (http://www.turnkeyinternet.com http://www.turnkeyinternet.com). They were a smaller facility - quite literally - where everyone was friendly and personable, with no fuss, no issues, and very good pricing. They've now been bought by ColoHouse, and I have no idea how that will affect things there. If the acquisition hasn't changed the people and practices in their Latham, NY facility, then I'd recommend them. I'm interested to check out some of the recommendations here for my own machines :) On another note, it is interesting to see how many people go out of their way to try to discourage colocation in favor of renting / using service providers. I've always believed that movement to be successful marketing, both to make money for the large providers, and if you're the conspiratorial type, perhaps to make as much data as possible accessible to government TLA agencies. But why do people think it's OK to answer someone's question with, "don't do that, because I have an opinion about something I've never done"? Hmmm...