just to let you know if you plan to get a rgh getting your money back from hosting it isnt the most reliable thing to achieve.

And You cant host paid lobbys on ttg so it adds more to your problem

try getting a rgh 1 console as they most of the time have better boot times.

again some sellers sell Dirt cheap xenon jtags for around 50-100

with them being a cheap console for a starter like you i would jump on it for the learning part of the "jtag World"

Very small chance that you will make half of what you put into it back. Say you buy a Trinity RGH with cables and hard drive at an estimated cost of $225. Then you have to pay for a server $10-20 a day, but if you'd rather use offline files then $10-25 for KVs every two days. Not to mention that people are usually hesitant to do recoveries and you'd probably have to do them free just to build a reputation. No one is going to pay for Cod 4, WAW, MW2, BO1, MW3. That puts you at 3 possible games to make money BO2, Ghosts, and GTA 5. Black Ops two you might be able to get $5 for a recovery. Ghosts maybe $8 for a recovery. When GTA 5 gets updated only a select few will be able to host lobbies, but currently almost anyone can host it. Not to mention that offline files DO NOT have BO2 or Ghost bypasses so your console will probably be banned in a few hours if you try to host online.

Don't buy a console thinking to make money back from it. You aren't going to break even. Each KV will cost $20 each time you get banned, and Stealth is $20 as well since there are no offline files out, that's $40 a day.

Donations will only make you $5-15 maybe. It's not worth it.

Lol ok so I know how you can make your money back don't buy 1 save yourself the money and just go buy something els there is so much other stuff too do with a rgh/jtag besides mod cod it's fun but you will get board of it and you will not make enough money if you do not know how to "work" with people I can't tell you what to do with your money but if you must buy one buy like a xenon for like 50 so you will not have that much of a lose if you dside to give up.