Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth View Post
Well, I actually deal with servers on a daily basis. And they are quite expensive. The builds we do regularly cost in the 2-3 million dollar range for smallish sets of servers(lumps of 44), and the accompanying infrastructure.

They aren't using cloud systems. They have dedicated hardware.
That's not a lot of money in 2021. You realize SE is raking in like 20 times that per month, right?