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Kinda expensive when I checked their offerings.

They charge €40pcm for an i7-4770, 32GB RAM, 2x SSD which can be bought for around €100 from any IT surplus (given it's around a decade old) and thrown in a libre/GPL colo at your local hacker space for single digits pcm.

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I got a i7-7700k which is more recent and cheaper than that, so it's overall a good deal.

EDIT: just the mobo, CPU and RAM is $300 on eBay. And let me know which hackerspace has a dedicated maintenance team, SLA guarantees, unlimited traffic. Apples and oranges. I'm trying to run a business here, not run a Minecraft server.

Should I really be penny-pinching on what is $50/mo? It's two pizzas, at current market rates.

That’s not their best hardware deal, but you also have to understand that you are paying for rack space, electricity, bandwidth, on-site staff for repairs, etc. They are actually absurdly inexpensive compared to competitors.

Fair, I looked at their other offerings and saw current gen specs at competitive rates - in that case we are agreed that's a lot better than most others.

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