Paying for a dedicated server every month is expensive. Especially when your game server doesn’t generate any profit. Considering that, I’d like to know what’s more worthwhile: renting a gamer VPS, or assembling all the hardware and creating a dedicated server here at home?
The positive side is having total control over everything. But what would be the downside?
Nowadays we have fiber internet. Here at home there’s air conditioning, so everything will always be well cooled.
I even already have some parts here for a server, from before the RAM price inflation.