Just to understand: did you buy any actual hardware?
Or "hosting company" means services on top of another hosting company that actually has hardware somewhere?
Long-term rental for colocation cages in an existing datacenter + long-term leasing contracts for the hardware + long-term support contract with a guy that lives close to the datacenter and keeps a stack of HDDs in his basement
So in effect I provide cloud services and cloud APIs on top of physical bare-metal servers that are maintained and housed by someone else.