Your Server Closet Is Not a Data Center (It Knows, Too)
Somewhere in your office there's a door. Behind it hums a rack, a box fan, and a sticky note that says DO NOT UNPLUG. It used to be the supply closet. The toner is still in there. So is your entire business.
We say this with love. The office server room is a proud small-business tradition, right up there with the shared Wi-Fi password taped to the fridge. But at some point it stops being scrappy and starts being a liability. Here's how to tell, and why colocation is usually the grown-up answer.