> If distributed, fail tolerant and instant deployable are three things that describe your startup, relying on your hardware to always work, that your sysop fri

> If distributed, fail tolerant and instant deployable are three things that describe your startup, relying on your hardware to always work, that your sysop friend is always around and that you're on top of kernel bugs seems like a pretty fast way to fail. Indeed, if you are a typical startup, then you either don't have the capital, the time or the knowledge to manage your own hardware. But at some point you should move into a hardware-owner category at least because it's the foundation on whatever your are building and you might want some control over that.