Particularly when you accidentally lock your self out of your firewall and 
have to fly half way across the country to hardware reset it because your 
service contract does not include it.  (But they may do it for $2000)

Service is important, at least for a production site.


Quoting Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com>:

> On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 10:17 -0700, JD wrote:
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > >>Hi everyone,
> > >>
> > >>I am just wondering if any of you know a good (affordable) place
> to
> > >>put a server.
> > >>
> > >>Greg
> > >>
> > >>    
> > >>
> > If using another server is ok and your goal isn't specifically to get
> a 
> > particular server in a rack, you might try getting a dedicated server
> 
> > from a company like 1and1.com.  Their support is pretty shoddy, but
> I've 
> > been using them for over a year without an issue with the 
> > server/bandwidth/etc. 
> > For me it works, because I don't need their support help.  The way
> they 
> > have it setup you can almost do everything you could normally do in 
> > person except for of course upgrading the hardware.  At the time I did
> 
> > my research they were 1/3 the price of anything I could find here in
> AZ.
> ----
> price of course isn't everything
> 
> Craig
> 
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