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Thanks, but I prefer small, cheap 1U's because this first server is just a test run/demo, and also because it's easier to scale.

• gscott 12y ago
  It's great if you want to start out with an inexpensive server but it is harder to scale with 1u servers. You can't fill a whole rack with them because of the electricity requirements, there are more servers to fail, more servers to keep updated, just a real pain in the hind end.
• stevekemp 12y ago
  "A hosting company" is a vague thing to want to setup, at the low-end you can have a single rack with random boxes in it. But to scale you need to consider running an AS, peering, redundant feeds, PSUs, having remote access to reimage machines, etc, etc. So rather than saying you want to be a host you'd get better response0s if you said what kind of hosting person you want to be? Random wordpress? Giving remote root on virtual machines? (Whats your antispam policy? How will you monitor incoming/outgoing bandwidth? What kind of routers will you use? What network topology to increase uptime? How many geographical locations?) Lots of people started hosting companies back in the day by filling racks with servers, before power costs made it hard, and these days reselling AWS, etc, is the simplest way to start - no need to worry about infrastructure, and still reasonably reliable.