> A linode vm's cost is not measured in its price tag but in how much effort it takes to maintain. Updates, security advisories, hypervisor crashes, crashes und

> A linode vm's cost is not measured in its price tag but in how much effort it takes to maintain. Updates, security advisories, hypervisor crashes, crashes under sudden unexpected load, crashes because you're on vacation and you are having too much uninterrupted fun, ... If I had a choice between that and ~$1800/year? If you don't want to do sysadmin work at the rate of ~$300/hr, that is your business.