Sounds like they take care of their staff well too! Happy employees make for a happy environment.

When I colo'ed at Techspace in California, the had a great building. Access to a putting green, workout gym, cafateria, even a bar on premisis for after work. A little extra goes a long way some times!

When I toured the facility at The Planet last year, I was impressed with what they had availalbe to their employees and their "group" or "team leader" type days spread through the month. Again, another company that takes care of their staff as more than just "staff".

I'm going to forward this to my boss. Putting greens, workout gyms, cafeterias, bars, showers. Sounds great!

There's NOTHING like taking a stress relief on a putting green. Of course, that's California for you! Every Friday was a golf day in our office. 4 of us took off and played golf in the morning. During the summer, there was always a handful of people that did "speed golf" - in which you can cover 18 holes in less than 2 hours. You get to bring 4 clubs (including putter), and you literally hit the ball, then RUN to the next hit or hole. Usually played on an executive course - but a great workout at 6am. Slowing down the heart rate before swinging the club (after running 150 yards) is always interesting!

Actually - it's almost 1pm here, another hour and I'm at the driving range Gearing up for a tournament in June in Vegas.

Good luck in your tournament.

This really depends on the price. If all you need is a low cost server than leasing might always be a better deal. You can get dedicated servers starting in the $50 range. This is the same price as low cost colocation. If you don't need a beefy machine you can just lease a server and than you don't have to be responsible for re-placing hardware that goes bad. Colocation is always a better deal the higher end the machine goes.

I am not familiar with any data centers specifically that lease or sell any type of hardware. The 14 data centers (3 different brands) that we operate in nationally do not offer this service, in fact they refer these types of requests directly to us.

The only real advantages that I see to leasing any dedicated server lies within the initial cost of owning a server and as with any leas, you are not liable for the maintenance of a server. In essence we focus on the network and hardware aspects of colocation, and the data center operators focus on the facility infrastructure aspect.