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[pjmlp]

Back in the day we would rent some racks, or virtual servers, at the local ISP.

Very seldom it was done in-house.

[dilyevsky → pjmlp]

It’s still mostly done that way except you rent rackspace from equinix, coresite, etc and they buy transit separately from isp. Doesn’t make sense to build until you’re spending tens of millions a year on colos