Re:Intel 3rd gen Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake): generationally bi...
by cduzz on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @09:24AM
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Servers are very expensive. It is not cost efficient to buy a server and let it sit idle or turn it off.
Even purchased on the used market, a decent server could cost $4000; if you spread that cost across 4 years, that's $80ish per month just to pay for the server, which is probably around your power / rent costs.
The costs are more stark if you're buying new, where it is easy to sped $10-30k for a decent spec server.
Don't buy a server to leave it turned off, you're wasting money.
Even purchased on the used market, a decent server could cost $4000; if you spread that cost across 4 years, that's $80ish per month just to pay for the server, which is probably around your power / rent costs.
The costs are more stark if you're buying new, where it is easy to sped $10-30k for a decent spec server.
Don't buy a server to leave it turned off, you're wasting money.