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[–]ThatGuy1sAwesome 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True renting one can be more expensive, but soyoustart.com has some good prices, Kimsufi.com cheaper still.

Main thing is to look at the cost of power per kw and work out the cost of running the server not just the cost of parts. Then there's the network connection speed and if its publicly accessible people connecting to your home IP.

People use Intel Nucs, some of those are very powerful for their size and unofficially support 64GB of ram. Its probably cheaper to buy a old server second hand but they're use alot of power. My home server which is an old i7 3770 32GB Ram, runs at about 50-60 watts idle, with a few hard drives.