I think the date in the second part of the sentence got you to misunderstand what was meant. Afaik the message is older and relates to the merging of our two hosting accounts onto one dedicated box. This obviously reduced costs. The second part of the sentence was probably added later and was about the rather unrelated Renegade server merge. It's very unclear indeed though.
I don't mind money to be mentioned there. It was indeed a good reason for the server merge, although obviously not the only one. Same goes for the player counts really, it wasn't the only reason either.