A few (about 3) years ago, the company where I was (in Europe) did make money doing hosting over housed space. We did hosting (dedicated and virtualized server

A few (about 3) years ago, the company where I was (in Europe) did make money doing hosting over housed space. We did hosting (dedicated and virtualized servers), managed services, and re-housing, this is, rent again the racks/power/IPs which we did rent on different providers. If I'm true, I think it did work very well because the company did get very big projects, because the company management did have great agreements and contacts with high environments (local government, local banks, football teams, newspapers, etc). That is, I as a technical person, do not see myself starting from zero the same AND getting the local customers we did use to get. And much less global customers. I can assure the systems part of the project budgets, did make great money. Even more profitable on maintenance status. The worse on the company was sometimes, the development team's estimation and execution balance.