Sit does have a cost it's just a minimal one compared to getting it managed
οΏ½Maybe I should've been more specific saying hosting a dedicated server is free, if you host it yourself at home olol
Syou pay for internet which is being used by others when you open your ports
Sinternet is mostly a flat fee
Risnβt kelvinβs first name bob
Swell again that's not technically the case
Rand the freaky version of kelvin is freakbob kelvin
CI think its robby
οΏ½God dammit, splitting my spears here come on ;U
οΏ½John Kelvin
SI'm just trying to be specific lmao
οΏ½Now that's a man I can get behind.
οΏ½... Nnnfg.. 
Syes it's technically free to do if you already have the stuff set up to do it
SSbut it has a background cost of energy over time
RWHAT
S2 dollars of electricity per century
Rfreakrob kelvin
Rfire
SManaged servers (From a host) also have the benefits of if you don't know what you're doing, then you get it handled for you
Sat 1000x the cost
Smore like however much it costs to run your pc 24/7 per year
SThat's literally what you're paying for
οΏ½By the way it's @yes who asked, so... :U
Sif you have no idea what you're doing or how to set up a server then you're paying for the convenience
Rbro wtf is :U
οΏ½You asked about Dedicated vs Normal.
Salso yeah it's 1000x the cost because most hosts rent hardware
οΏ½ur dad :U
Sand renting is expensive
Sa decent dedicated machine in the US is 100/month
Sso they have to offload that cost to the customer
οΏ½You better be writing this all down.
Si can build a 500 dollar pc to run my server and when im not using it i can mine bitcoin on it and even if thats only like 10 dollars a month thats still no operating cost and itβll eventually pay itself off
SI run my own little host
οΏ½Smoke's goin' above and beyond educating yo sorry ass. :U
CFor free
SYes you could
Sbut it's also a 500 dollar upfront cost
SSand most businesses spend more than 500 dollars on a server
Ssince they use racks, etc
οΏ½I mean you could mine bitcoin and run the server on it at the same time assuming the mining method is GPU based only.. olol :U
Sbut a lot of pool miners use CPU and RAM too
Sso you'd have to be doing it all on your own which is slow as hell without an ASIC
οΏ½But mining these days is pointless, you may as well just buy a chunk of NRG or something, stake it and host a node.