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 co

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.