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I'm one of those virtualization providers... but even at my scale, which is pretty small, I price my services such that worst-case, I pay off my hardware in four months. that seems expensive to me.

Of course, if you need small servers (and I only rent small VPSs) I'm saving you money. even if you get the server for free, (which isn't that difficult) finding someone to host a server with 512MiB of ram for $12/month is going to be really hard.