The topic might be a little misleading, though what I am thinking about might still be considered a DC. What I want to do is pull a 40/50m fiber connection into my office, then host servers from there. There is some expand-ability, as the fiber line is expandable to 10g, and there is another separate provider that I could get a second fiber or EoC connection from to multihome the environment. The telco can provide the initial /23 or /24, and if the project took off we would buy IPs from ARIN and an AS #. My business partner and I are still debating whether we want to go down this path or not, and welcome any and all suggestions and comments from the community here.
Would probably do some VPS hosting, as well as some dedi's and shared hosting; along with providing a much needed small colo facility for our town (down the road, after upgrading power and adding generator and other amenities).
Thoughts?