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Many of those hosting companies went out of business with the bust in dot com. So where does that leave the server coloation industry today? There are certainly still companies that over promise and under deliver. But on the norm, enough time has passed that the good companies have sorted themselves from the bad. Additionally, many of the technical failures that plagued early hosting companies are no longer an issue. Much of the core routing and load balancing equipment has been through many versions of development.