If your scale is small (you&#x27;re in the &#x27;two people in a garage&#x27; phase of your company), then the cost of having your own server is small, even though you waste most of it. Hetzner will rent you a real physical server with an x86 processor and 32 GB of RAM for about 40 euros a month. I&#x27;m sure you can get smaller virtual servers elsewhere for less.<p>If your scale is large, you have enough work to make full use of however many servers you rent.<p>Reducing infrastructure waste at small scale seems pointless to me. The actual cash money saving is just lost in the noise.<p>The only way i can see that i could be wrong is if there&#x27;s a suppressed demand for huge numbers of tiny-scale services. Is there?