@cwebber
I would say it depends on your definition though.

I used to rent 1U plus power and network in a rack on a single rented tile that was part of a rented room in a data center.

The owners of the data center rented out rooms, network, and power, and left the rest to tenants.

I see nothing wrong with such a data center. And they still exist; I know of at least one in the neighbourhood of the place that I moved out of a few months ago.
@farfalk

@tyil
High speed Internet is more achievable at affordable rates in a data center.

That's the only thing.
@cwebber @farfalk

@glitzersachen
Oh you can totally do that if you want to and your home Internet connection can carry the load. I've done this myself and there's nothing wrong with it.

But there are cases where that isn't enough, or where a home Internet connection of sufficient speed is prohibitively expensive.
@cwebber @farfalk

@tyil
That depends on where you are.

I read a blog post of someone once who got a 25Gbit line for his home Internet connection in Switzerland. I was like, why on earth would you do that... until I discovered that the price of that connection was about the same as the 100Mbit line I had at my place in South Africa at the time, with a 1Gbit line being more than double that price.

I wouldn't Colo in Switzerland. I might in SA.
@cwebber @farfalk

@tyil
That being said, data center Internet connections are engineered to higher standards and with better redundancy than residential ones. There are plenty of cases where that doesn't matter, but there are also plenty where it does.
@cwebber @farfalk