Hetzner in Germany for example has 8 TB HDD with 32 GB RAM and a i7-6700 Quad-Core for ~55 USD per month.
edit: US hosters seem to be quite a bit more expensive. Does anyone know why there is such a difference?
The underlying cost structure is also more challenging in the US for most dedicated hosts. Building a data center in the US, as with most infrastructure, costs more than it does in Germany.
When you account for the higher cost of infrastructure and the higher productivity (economic output), a $80 Hetzner server becomes a $120 or $140 server in the US.
It's the same reason housing in Australia is so expensive (their incomes have skyrocketed over the last 15 years), or why the cost of living is so high in Switzerland (very high incomes). If you cut US GDP per capita from ~$57k-$60k down to $28,000 (just as an example) - dedicated hosts in the US would not be able to command the same high prices, the market would not bear that.
[1]: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... [2]: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
I'd expect electricity to be a major cost item for data centers. GDP per capita is not a good proxy for the cost of running a data center. It is only loosely related to labour costs and not at all to cost of infrastructure projects and regulation.
So I still don't completely understand why US data centers are more expensive, esp at locations like Kansas or Oregon where energy is cheaper than in most/all of Europe.
https://www.ovh.com/us/news/cp2435.global_iaas_leader_ovh_co...
Disclaimer: lived in both countries, operated sizeable DCs in both countries, but didn't do the math just now. Edit: spelling