In my case I'm a SMB/Non-Profit, so as much as I would love to go SSD for the server, its a harder pitch for me when I'm barely able to get the drives I need (at least 10k) already. I've learned to not go splurge on new servers at all and to trust vendors who do refurbished with warranty and extended warranties so it helps to keep cost down. That alone helps me out tremendously.
Spending time with Dell and HP and explaining our use case has been helpful too. I have some awesome program I hope will help us lead to lower purchase cost for Dell servers but it was only available through Tech Soup and I haven't placed an order yet. If that pans out well, then yea I cna probably afford ssd's.
Case and point, I still manage our fleet of workstations individually. I'm JUST NOW able to an affordable imaging solution like Smart Deploy for the first time.