Why are enterprise servers and hardware so expensive now?
Enterprise hardware prices have more than doubled over the past year, turning purchases that once cost $3,500 into $8,000 investments. This dramatic price increase makes it difficult to find cost-effective components or properly spec compliant equipment on a tighter budget.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Lowering hardware requirements
- 2Raising the budget
- 3Waiting for market prices to change
- 4Searching for alternative firewall vendors or lower-cost desktop models with compliance support
- 5Evaluating different hardware brands for lower-tier pricing options
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“The issue is that the smallest fortigate that that will provide for 25 users in spec, and is also FIPS *Level 2* compliant, is a 200F and Rugged 60F.”source ↗
“Because of this, they want to keep things on the cheaper side.”source ↗
“I bought a similar spec server for $3500 a year ago. I am not trying to spend $8K on this server.”source ↗
Where this came up
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