Server Hosting Costs

Comments debate the economics of self-hosting servers versus cloud or dedicated hosting providers, focusing on monthly fees, electricity costs, and hardware expenses.

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gallexme Oct 14, 2021 View on HN

god i wish my power costs were not 0.38€/kwh for me renting servers is cheaper all around(https://www.hetzner.com/de/dedicated-rootserver/ax41-nvme)

7e Jul 11, 2025 View on HN

Great idea. They are 1/6th the cost of the server, though.

eip Apr 6, 2016 View on HN

No.. you can get huge dedicated servers for like $50/month.

hartator Jun 22, 2017 View on HN

The issue is $370 per month is still a lot of money. While you can probably archieve the same performance on $5-10 vm or bare metal server.

danuker Oct 21, 2021 View on HN

As opposed to what? Hosting your own server for $120/yr in electricity, but with hardware costs on top?

joshuaxls Apr 15, 2009 View on HN

I think he's referring to how much it would cost if you paid for a server like that through a hosting provider.

idsout Feb 10, 2023 View on HN

That sounds really expensive for the server.

At this "scale" a single 3Gbps guaranteed pipe is ~330€/mo on OVH. You could simply buy ten of them just to be sure and still be paying 1/3 a month of what that would cost you for a day in the cloud. That includes all the maintenance and power for the equipment, you simply have to know how to use the OS.

quest88 Jul 30, 2024 View on HN

Offer a cheaper solution and find out!Servers cost money each month, as do the services they use.

quickthrower2 Apr 6, 2023 View on HN

$1000 a month on servers would do it. They could probably do something premium $10/m to pay for it.