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Rented gear in someone else's racks, and it's only that cheap due to Supermicro. I did calculate what the providers premium was, and it didn't seem too unreasonable given the services such as remote hands and taking care of replacements that were being provided.

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Perhaps in your use-case it was cheaper / less risk to rent than to own, but for sizable concerns, it's a no brainer that owning is far, far cheaper.

(For smaller stuff/side projects: In the UK, ByteMark.co.uk is awesome, flexible (colo/rent) and cheap. In the US, Pair.com is great. Linode is also decent.)

(For bigger stuff, there are datacenters in the middle of nowhere where power is cheap. That's the often limiting factor for green-field projects... cost of renting circuits from DC's, not the rack real-estate.)

I am brazilian and I am assuming OP is too, Amazon prices in Brazil are cheaper than the competition, simply because the local oferrings are really expensive.

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