rental servers?

[Bill McGonigle]

Here's a strange question - has anyone heard of a service that provides 
short-term server rentals?

This is for benchmarking an application on a machine for a client who's 
not interested in purchasing a dual-xeon with two gigs of RAM and phat 
SCSI disks just for benchmarking, but would be interested in renting 
one for a few days to see how their application performs on it.

It's also different from a colo/rental which is usually monthly plus 
some minimum term.  One could unethically take advantage of a 
money-back-guarantee on such a thing but I'm not looking for that kind 
of solution.

In theory this could be a profitable business but I haven't seen 
anything like it - if the rental fee was like $25 a day one could 
double his money on each server each year, not counting the year-end 
eBay.

Of course if anyone here has such a thing that's sitting on a shelf and 
would prefer to make some dollars on it for a week that's totally 
doable.

-Bill
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