That's probably not a good example. The odds of an tow-truck owner/operator needing to setup a linux server is pretty low. I exited the tech industry and now run a handyman service and even I probably wouldn't pay those fees.
There's plenty of reasons why a tow-truck company may want a server.
Regardless, clearly I was talking about a tow-truck company buying a tow-truck and not a server, as I was trying to convey that the dollar amount isn't obscene for a small business to handle.
As I am sure you're aware from your stated field of work that far more money than $2.5k is going into tools & such.
Nothing with regards to my comment was to suggest that the service one would be paying for here is worth that money. Maybe it is or isn't, that not I was commenting on.
It is purely that X amount of money was not unreasonable for a small business to expect to expense.