I would suggest if you need a dedicated server then you should just buy one and find a cheap colo. I pay $200/month for a local company that has redundant powe

I would suggest if you need a dedicated server then you should just buy one and find a cheap colo. I pay $200/month for a local company that has redundant power and almost 0% downtime with great fiber. They charge that much because there's a demand for it and people will pay. Dedicated servers are a smaller market, so no one is eager to charge less than X amount for renting a server. However, 8GB-16GB of RAM is a lot and also makes the motherboard a lot more expensive (and Windows slightly more if it's a Windows box, 64bit). If you can put together your own machine it doesn't need to be super expensive.