We buy the cheapest server that meets our needs, and buy it in somewhat larger quantities (often double what was originally envisioned for less than was originally budgeted). Much more efficient.<p>But it does mean no IPMI. However I built a small circuit that sits on a power cable that can interrupt said power cable with a relais that sits on a bus plugged into our server, so we can do the reboot thing.<p>I&#x27;ve been meaning to redo that power cable circuit using wifi as the linking technology, now that we have esp8266 available.