Pick a smaller ec2 instance, and I'll find a comparable dedicated server that yields a similar price/perf gain (true, it might be more pronounced on the high en

Pick a smaller ec2 instance, and I'll find a comparable dedicated server that yields a similar price/perf gain (true, it might be more pronounced on the high end...). Your two side notes tell me that you're conflating dedicated and colocated hosting. I can see now why you think EC2 saves you devops if you think colocated is your only choice. I'm talking about dedicated hosting, so, no, I don't need to worry about electricity, setup time (not as much as you mean anyways), hardware failure, network access or rackspace. This is an extremely common model. The price that I quoted I just got quickly from Hivelocity.com (1). The price is actually $300, not $400...I'm not affiliated with them at all. They've been in business for longer than AWS has existed. I could have gotten a similar price from a thousand companies. (1) https://store.hivelocity.net/product/125/customize/1/ https://store.hivelocity.net/product/125/customize/1/