[wpietri]

For many years I was part of a bandwidth cooperative. We had a cabinet and a fat pipe and a bunch of sysadmins who wanted a place to keep their stuff. Early on it was all 1U or 2U systems. But later there was enough demand for Mac Minis that we dedicated a shelf to them.

It didn't make much sense from a professional syadmin's perspective. But for a Mac user who already had their little project on a Mini and wanted to get it off their home bandwidth, it made sense to them in that it was one simple, incremental change. I imagine the market here is similar.

[xg15]

But at least in your case, people could put their own machines in there. You wouldn't have rented out mac minis as dedicated servers, would you?

Edit: Ah, misread the article. Alright, then what you did was indeed pretty similar.

[wpietri]

Yeah, ours was still a bit different, in that we just provided a shelf where you could plug your gear in. But it seems like the same principle.