If someone here needs concrete recommendations, AMA. We colocated in San Francisco 

I believe it. And at that cost you could easily co-locate in a few data centers while still saving money

rheedi0

You have redundancy for that. I ran a site with 3.6gbps bandwidth and our own datacenter is 5-7x cheaper. I am not exaggerating, 5-7x.

sancristrader

if you have to drive to datacenters in the middle of the night to replace broken hardware you start to appreciate the cloud more