Red1982

Total facility power divided by IT equipment power. So if your datacenter uses 1.2 megawatts total and your servers use 1 megawatt, PUE is 1.2. The 0.2 is cooling, lighting, losses, the security guard's kettle.

Under 1.2 by 2...

Less moving parts wins
Check who owns the IP

This is the part that actually matters to me. I have a colo quarter-rack in London with a provider who can barely send invoices on time. Now they need to file annual energy reports with the Environment Agency? I give it six...

I lost a site in 2022 because my "backup" was just cpanel full backup and the host went under before I could download it. The backup existed but I had no access. Now I use rclone to Backblaze B2 every night. $0.005/GB.

London here. I've used GreenCloudVPS off and on since 2019. Their Amsterdam node was solid for me but support was always slow. Not 11 days slow, but 3-4 day slow. Budget prices mean budget staffing.

GreenCloudVPS 34 days or HostHatch? Edge case if its hardware SLA.

This is why I track SLA credits in the spreadsheet. Column R. The average credit success rate is 34%. OVHcloud is the worst at 12%. Leaseweb is the best at 71%.

London perspective: VAT adds another 20% on top if you're not VAT-registered. My Contabo renewal jumped from €4 to €9 then to €10.80 after VAT. Nobody talks about the VAT cliff.

I know. I will take the latency hit. The point is I do not trust anyone who was in that building anymore.