Title: I&#x27;m a 20 something software engineer building primarily web apps, apis, etc. Most of my career has been around cloud based hosting on AWS and friends. I run quite a few side projects and like to have space to experiment and try out new technologies and ideas.<p>For the past few years I&#x27;ve been doing this across AWS and DigitalOcean but I&#x27;m starting to think I can probably get more bang for my buck by colocating a rack server and spinning up a few VMs. The up front cost of a used rack server don&#x27;t seem too bad and the monthly colocation costs are then much better than what you can get for the same price on a cloud provider.<p>I&#x27;m pretty happy to spend the extra time and energy on the management side since it&#x27;s mostly side projects and experimentation that I&#x27;ll be doing with it.<p>Before I take the plunge and give it a go, I&#x27;m wondering if there&#x27;s any gotcha&#x27;s I should know about that aren&#x27;t immediately obvious to someone who&#x27;s not done this before? I&#x27;ll be looking to colocate probably a single 1U or 2U server somewhere in the UK if that makes any difference.
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