Pay to Own Servers???

[Marks]

I am not a big fan of rent-to-own or lease-to-own deals because you typically pay a premium and in 2 years you have old hardware that is not worth much.

FDCServers hit the nail on the head. Rent-To-Own is rather an old option, i.e. If you rent to own a High End Server by the Time you pay it off it will become a Mid-Level Server.

 

[tickedon]

FDCServers hit the nail on the head. Rent-To-Own is rather an old option, i.e. If you rent to own a High End Server by the Time you pay it off it will become a Mid-Level Server.

That obviously depends how quickly you'd pay it off

Lots of people will rent a server for a long period of time (18-36 months) and simply not change/upgrade it - paying the same $XXX/mo. A company I worked for leased a Dual Xeon from ThePlanet and we were still leasing the thing over 3 years later - we'd paid $500 setup back at the beginning, and our monthly price was nearly exactly the same as the price it was offered 3 years later. If that had been a rent-to-own, we'd have paid off the hardware and have had an asset to sell off and recoup costs on.

Lease-to-own can work, but, it obviously depends what you're doing, how many servers you have, and how many times you need/want to upgrade.

 

[hostzio]

Dedicated server a few years back had these kind of plans, but now most of the datacenters offer free setup. So either way your most likely just paying for the bandwidth useage.