> All sever equipments come with an expiration date Corporate mindset. When I worked at a major cloud provider the platforms group evaluated the ongoing econom

> All sever equipments come with an expiration date Corporate mindset. When I worked at a major cloud provider the platforms group evaluated the ongoing economic cost/benefit of existing machines and every year the decision to retire ancient machines was "not yet". A suit-wearing corporate IT guy gets new hardware every 3 years. GCP will still rent you a Sandy Bridge machine from 2011. EC2 still has Haswell CPUs in its mainstream offering and if you really want them they have Harpertown Xeon from 2008 available.