[toor2]

Can't you just use AWS or an equivalent cloud service instead of owning a server?

[quickben]

I look into it every few months actually. It always turns out to be substantially more expensive. The disk performance in vms also either arent there, or are just too pricey.

Another part of the story is that if you roam the local sell forums, you'll find an older Xeon servers for cheap.

So, that leaves electricity, which is not that bad.