The answer to that depends both on your scale and also probably on the business model (ie, if you're selling a storage solution you have different needs than a

The answer to that depends both on your scale and also probably on the business model (ie, if you're selling a storage solution you have different needs than a dating website). I'm intrigued by Rackspace's new OnMetal service, but at any reasonably large scale it's usually a big win to own the hardware (as long as you can afford redundancy).