With the latest ThreadRipper would probably be the same price after 3 months of service to buy the equipment. If you're running more than 3 servers, most likely

With the latest ThreadRipper would probably be the same price after 3 months of service to buy the equipment. If you're running more than 3 servers, most likely you are, then you can add 5 2TB (10TB) per node of M.2 SSDs which are super fast for cache, and cheaper SATA SSDs for regular storage and cluster the storage using Rook (Ceph). Most expensive thing is RAM. There are a lot of great colo facilities for this type of hardware. Using secure boot, TPM, LUKS and tamper detection, it sure would be hard to break into your server even if not caged. Most of these facilities have video cams and modern security protocols. However, if you can migrate your workloads to Kubernetes with KubeVirt and others then I'd advise you avoid VMware like the plague.