Maybe you're right.

But using large VPS farms for early mining on the right coins is nearly always profitable if you go hard, or I wouldn't do it. Between XPM and MAX I think I probably made over 120 BTC at a cost of a few thousand dollars. If you do it smart it's profitable, but this time it hasn't worked for me!
Sure if you choose the right coins and are patient you will make some profit for sure, but I'm sure you could increase it with a root farm, however rootservers are something you must have at hand before the coin has launched ofcourse.
I made 150k QRK with my root, sold it all for peanuts, hope you are more patient than me.

Take a look at AWS Spot instances - they are crazy cheap with some caveats. But they are perfect for mining new coins