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The economics simply don't work. Add up hardware, ongoing maintenance, electricity and ISP costs, and then the cut that the middleman will take (realistically 3
by paxys 2y ago
The economics simply don't work. Add up hardware, ongoing maintenance, electricity and ISP costs, and then the cut that the middleman will take (realistically 30-50%, probably more), and there's no reality where you can compete with a $4/month VPS from Hetzner.
- solardev 2y agoNot on reliability, sure, but compute?
- lostmsu 2y agoVPS maybe not, but GPU servers are very viable (we built one).
- nucleardog 2y agoWe're not talking starting up a hosting company but renting idle capacity. I'm already paying for the hardware, maintenance, electricity, and connectivity. The only real marginal cost to renting some of my idle capacity would be additional power use. Versus current draw, the power supply running maxed out 24/7 would increase my power bill by $36/mo. If we use the $4.59/mo VPS as a point of comparison, just one of the servers heating up my utility room has 24x the CPU cores ($110/mo), 96x the RAM ($440/mo) and 1024x the storage ($4,700/mo). I would never in a million years actually do so, but I'm relatively certain I could turn several dozen CPU cores, hundreds of GB of RAM, and terabytes of disk space into more than $72/mo (assuming only getting 50% of the revenue) _somehow_.