If I were a colocation facility, I sure would hate to take care of the servers my customers bought themselves. 'Hey Dirk! Why don't you drive all the way acros

If I were a colocation facility, I sure would hate to take care of the servers my customers bought themselves. 'Hey Dirk! Why don't you drive all the way across town to pick up this dingy fifth-hand server and install it in your colocation facility. And make it run. And do the maintenance.' Thanks, but no thanks. The reason why colocation facilities don't offer this is because they don't want to deal with hardware they didn't buy themselves. Now, you're talking about buying a new server, obviously. But then still, I'd have to deal with a plethora of different servers. It'd would be easier for me to stick with a couple of servers that I'm familiar with. That, or if you buy your own, you'd have to take care of it yourself.