I'm facing this right now. I just bought 6 1U servers for almost nothing for one of the companies I work with, and now we have to figure out where to put them.

I'm facing this right now. I just bought 6 1U servers for almost nothing for one of the companies I work with, and now we have to figure out where to put them. We had a free 1U rack space before, but we're unsure if we'll be able to get 6U of space for free. If not, CoLo spots aren't all that cheap. Putting them in someone's house isn't an option and we don't have much money. Sure we had the money to buy the servers (some were $100/each used from another company that was switching to EC2)- but I don't have 100's/month for racking each of them nearby. We're a super-small company without much capital and zero investment right now. Totally bootstrapped and paying for stuff via consulting. There's no way in hell we have a 60K budget and if we bring in that much total in the next 9 months I'd be happy.