I'm thinking of buying refurbished server for Matrix and Peertube however all of those that would make financial sense have Ivy Bridge or older Xeons so it would mean lower single threaded performance than my rented dedi with an i7-3370
@matrix Currently the main reason to own your own server hardware is so you can own your own storage hardware because renting storage is fucking expensive.
has 1TB of SSD cached RAID10 for $5/month.