RentServers.comGPU and server buying guides
Plain-English guides for infrastructure buyers: rent vs buy, compliance, power and cooling, used hardware, and colocation pricing.
Rent vs buy GPUs: the 2026 math
When renting GPU servers beats buying them, with dated 2026 rental medians, purchase price estimates, hosting costs and the utilization where owning pays off.
SOC 2 and HIPAA-ready GPU hosting
What SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA readiness mean for GPU servers and AI hosting, when you need a Business Associate Agreement, and the questions to ask before PHI touches a GPU.
Rack power density and cooling for GPU servers
How many kW an H100, B200 or B300 rack draws, where air cooling stops, when you need rear-door or direct-to-chip liquid cooling, and how to size circuits.
How to inspect a used GPU server
A step-by-step acceptance test for used H100 and H200 servers: serial checks, nvidia-smi ECC and row remapping, DCGM diagnostics, NVLink and NCCL tests, and burn-in.
Buying used enterprise parts: NVMe, RDIMMs, NICs and optics
How to buy used NVMe drives, DDR5 RDIMMs, network cards and optical transceivers safely: health checks, compatibility, firmware locks and 2026 memory pricing.
How to rent a GPU cluster
Specs, terms, interconnect and what to put in the contract.
Dedicated vs VPS vs cloud
Which kind of server fits which workload, and what each costs.
Colocation pricing explained: per kW, cross-connects and remote hands
Rent per kW, the three power billing models, cross-connects, remote hands, setup and escalators, with a worked 36-month example.
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