colocation

The break-even is a utilization number, not a price comparison, and most teams overestimate the utilization they will actually reach. The full cost of owning, the number that decides it, and the two situations where renting wins even at high utilization.

The hardware is identical and almost everything around it moves: who can touch a node, how long a swap takes, what the contract actually guarantees, and what you can no longer measure. The six things to negotiate before signing and the two that decide whether operations work.