Comment by kkielhofner

3 years ago

You don't need IT in every location or even different hosting facility contracts. Most colo hosting companies have multiple regions. From the 800lb gorilla (Equinix):

https://www.equinix.com/data-centers

Or a smaller US focused colo provider:

https://www.coresite.com/data-centers/locations

Between vendor (Dell, HP, IBM, etc) and the remote hands offered by the hosting facility you don't ever have to have a member of your team even enter a facility. Anywhere. Depending on the warranty/support package the vendor will dispatch someone to show up to the facility to replace failed components with little action from you.

The vendor will be happy to ship the server directly to the facility (anywhere) and for a nominal fee the colo provider will rack it and get IPMI, iLo, IP KVM, whatever up for you to do your thing. When/if something ever "hits the fan" they have on site 24 hour "remote hands" that can either take basic pre-prescribed steps/instructions -or- work with your team directly and remotely.

Interestingly, at my first startup we had a facility in the nearest big metro area that not only hosted our hardware but also provided an easy, cheap, and readily available meeting space: