Going Colo In My Own Office With T1

I am located in Japan and presently am renting a dedicated windows 2003 server hosted in the US. However, most of my sites (about ten) cater to the local Japanese market. When I do a ping or traceroute to my server in the U.S. and compare it with same for servers in Japan, there is a world of difference.

8 hops in Japan as compared to 18 to the U.S. server. The hops in Japan are about 13 ms but the hops within the U.S. are 130 to 200ms from my location.

Based on this information, I would assume I would be better off having a server physically located here in Japan.

If I were running Linux, I would have no problems finding a good plan but I run Windows 2003 (all my sites are in ASP) and there isn't that much avaialble here. I got some quotes and even though the server rentals are reasonable, they kill you on options. Also, for some reason the plans here do not have additional IP's available as an option.

Backups are so high that they tell you to get two servers (nonsense).

I have also looked into colo in Japan. Most want you to rent a full rack. I found one that wanted $400 for 1/4 rack but then I would have to pay for a line on top of it.

The cost of bringing in a T1 line into my office is $275/mt which I think is reasonable (considering what stuff costs in Japan). My sites are not high traffic so a T1 line is probably enough. There is also 1GB optical fiber for the consumer market but I would think the T1 would be more reliable.

I realize there are those that insist that a server be located in a data center but power outings do not happen that often here. The office is located on the 5th floor of an office building.