@RTGHM
If you are interested, we just sent out a great offer to LEB maybe you might be interested? its in France , RBX.
http://lowendbox.com/blog/venetx-3-99month-3gb-openvz-in-roubaix-france/
To be honest renting is the best idea if you do not have investors providing backend money.
Through out my years in the business I have finally acquired 30 servers and all equipment needed. It was really extremely expensive but by next year when everything is good on money backlog ill be...
You should do what I will be doing by summer.
Turn into a sales man and walk into town (an actual little town where walking is the main transportation) and just sell them web-hosting, web-design, anything you might think they could need to expand their business.
I would say ; Seattle, Los Angeles , Dallas, Buffalo, Chicago.
But it doesn't matter which one is popular, its more of where the clients need them for better latency.
It's like they are just spilling out random announcements again to gain popularity. Once again we go down this road and I bet all "new customers" will not be satisfied within few months.