Pinboard go to site ‧ take a tour END BANNER RSS Pinboard Blog Thoughts on Colocation After a week of slogging servers around northern California, I thought a brain dump on colocation might be useful to readers, and to future me. I wrote about the difference between colocation, leased servers and other kinds of hosting in an earlier post . This one is strictly about colocation, the 'Condo' approach where you own a bunch of hardware and need a place to put it. What you are after is not complicated: A physical enclosure Some kind of Internet connection Power Security guards However, buying it is a pain in the neck. Money It's typical to sign a one- or three-year contract. Right off the bat this introduces an element of pressure, since you're making a fairly binding, long-term decision without knowing what you're doing. Unless you live in the Bay Area, colocation i...