> When it goes south, you're back to being a monkey plugging in cables and scratching your head. That is if you rent rack space. If you rent bare metal and the

> When it goes south, you're back to being a monkey plugging in cables and scratching your head. That is if you rent rack space. If you rent bare metal and the bare metal has a failing disk, you file a request to replace said disk, and the data center engineer will be plugging cables, not you. That means you have to worry about hardware failures, but you don't have the inconvenience of having to be physically present.