what's the point of hosting in a datacenter? you dont need tons of bandwidth, nor do you need 99.99999999% SLA, so why not host it at someone's house?
Insurance? What happens when a lightning hits nearby and it's strong enough to fry the ASIC?
what's the likelyhood of that happening when you're using an adequate surge protector?
Do you even have any ASIC pre-orders? Are you looking for hosting? Just curious as it seems like a silly question for someone looking to have their hardware hosted. As a customer, I'd imaging you want as much protection as you could get.
Running your own mining hardware at your house is fine, as you will most likely not run into any issues like fire or electrical surges. The problem comes is when you're mining with someone else's hardware. You can't cut the same corners as you do when you're mining for yourself, or you'll just get yourself into bigger issues. You can't put a customer's host PC on a carpet floor (like I do with my gaming PC, woops). I can live with a crappy wifi connection at my house, but a customer who wants 24/7 uptime/remote access will not appreciate it so much.
I would agree with malevolent. Insurance is a huge factor. Fire, theft, electrical damage, etc. can all ruin your investment. If a problem ever does come up where an accident happens, and no home insurance will cover $5,000 worth of a customer's property, someone's going to get screwed. Either the hoster is now responsible to pay back that $5,000 he lost his customer, or the customer just lost $5,000 for choosing the wrong person. Now multiply this over 10 customers, and you've got a real headache. Related to this are any legal issues. When renting space/power/remote access from a company, you know what you're getting into, as opposed to forum PMs with AverageJoe69.
Bandwidth may not be a huge issue, but stability is. The only time our datacenter lost power or internet was when the hurricane hit the NE recently, but we were back up in less than 12 hours.
So you tell me, which would you rather have your ASIC hosted at:
Note: neither of these pictures are mine, but you get the idea.