I certainly hope people that are buying their own servers aren't stashing them under their beds. You should really consider VPS if your needs out way shared se

I certainly hope people that are buying their own servers aren't stashing them under their beds. You should really consider VPS if your needs out way shared services, which I would seriously question if you are brand new. If VPS in all its forms, including slicehost or linode is still holding you back (I'm not sure there are many cases of this being true), collocation would be the way to go. Hosting your own data centre makes very little sense these days given the options available.