[LogicX]

I agree with the other posters... Start with bare metal dedicated.

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For some deals, pick something with low latency to you... and start there.

I’ve rented hundreds of servers over the years and only done colo a handful of times. A fine experience to have, but learning you need a KVM/IPMI through a dedicated server to start, and experiencing the ropes of hardware failures is going to be easier with a dedicated.