I think you're talking about cloud mining. IMO you shouldn't waste you money in cloud mining, it's not worth. With normal mining with antminer or asicsminer you will have to spend around 2 years to be able to take all the money you invested in mining back but it'll be longer if you use cloud mining. Beside there are a lot of scam cloud mining so it's not easy to find out a truthworthy one so you should better stay away of cloud mining and try to earn from some other way like trading, investing in ICO project or just holding.
Thanks so much for your response. What i want more details on is: identifying genuin partners to partner with to mine crypto as there are so many scammers out there. If someone approaches me that he mines and he would want me to invest, what are the key things to look out for? What are the key questions to ask?