I speculate that the reason it always come out cheaper in your calculations is because you have all the knowledge as a datacenter expert so you save a TON of money there.
Yes, that is a fair speculation, but it is not really true: everyone can save a lot, not just me. I rent out this knowledge to my customers, so they can save tons as well.
You can test this out by actually renting a M4 Mac mini server for 3 Euro with me, still cheaper than most hosters who rent you a fraction of a server (VPS) at (for example) nearlyfreespeech.net or fly.io because with me you get a full-blown server with traffic and energy cost.
My customers are companies who want to move off the cloud to self-hosting. They pay my labour and save tens of thousands per year on their hyperscaler(like AWS) and datacenter bills.
The expert knowledge comes from 40 years of planning, simulating, building and operating several datacenters, servers and websites over decades and delaying hundreds of kilometers of optical fiber.
Every time my self-host solutions have proven to be cheaper than hyperscalers or datacenters (data available on request. As you see clearly, labour cost dominate so the trick is to eliminate labour costs almost entirely while still have enough redundant low power servers in the cheapest locations.
Anyone interested in a $3.19 per month server should contact us. We would be happy to put a redundant M4 Mac mini server in your location for many years. You get an almost free server, we get global coverage.
