[jtchang]

You start looking at colos in your area that are within your parameters (as well as theirs).

The reason the box you linked doesn't get put in a colo is primarily power consumption and space. Colos charge mainly per amp. And that thing looks like it will draw a ton of power. Also some colos don't allow anything but standard racked computers. So you need to put it into a standard rack unit. This is primarily so they can standardize on cooling/airflow (generally racks have hot and cold aisles).

That said if you rent a whole rack you can probably get away with it. But then again it is expensive and you pay for transit as well.

Other options include at an office or even at home.

[kjsthree]

What does that guy actually do with the box then? There’s no way his home internet connection could keep it fed. I’m trying to imagine local uses for all that I/O.

[kjsthree]

Or maybe better said, there’s no way that box could feed the world over his home connection.

[tanelpoder]

The box is for experimentation & learning for fun and profit! :-)

When running some application on the box that processes & reduces the dataset (for example some analytics in RDBMS SQL), then the amount of data returned to the world would be much less than 66 GB/s. I have a 1 Gbit AT&T Fibre at my home(office), so could serve quite a lot through that (until AT&T starts complaining about the "unlimited" bandwidth really not being unlimited after some threshold :-)

But when not hosting stuff in a proper data centre with redundant internet connections, connection reliability would probably be the biggest issue. I've not had that many problems with reliability in the home-office (and occasional online training) usage context, but I'm pretty sure there'd be regular "hiccups" if I tried to serve something with high availability from here :-)