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"incredibly affordable" It could go a lot lower. Hetzner's profit margin on renting a server like this for 99€/month is formidable.

• tjoff 9y ago
  How to you figure? If I were to buy such as system it would be over €2000, that's not including cooling or a case for it either. Granted I live in Sweden so taxes are a bit on the high side. Regardless, that will be at least 20 months before they make a dime (assuming they can rent it 100% of the time). And in that time it will collect rackspace along with electricity, bandwitdh (2 gbits and 50 TB per month) and a dedicated IP. And after all that time that computer is not that hot anymore, but still draws just as much electricity regardless.
• icelancer 9y ago
  I'm sure they are, but there's turnover, customer service, attrition, obsolescence, etc that is all baked in, though clearly GTX 1080s will be valuable for some time, as will the i7 Skylake architecture. Relative to the market, that price is very, very good.
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