Comment by ozim

You know you can run a server in the cellar under your stairs.

You know that if you are a startup you can just keep servers in a closet and hope that no one turns on coffee machine while airco runs because it will pop circuit breakers, which will take down your server or maybe you might have UPS at least so maybe not :)

I have read horror stories about companies having such setups.

While they don't need multiple data centers, power, cooling and redundancy sounds for them like some kind of STD - getting cheap VPS should be default for such people. That is a win as well.