You were lucky to have a guy with VMWare experience. Most startups who avoid the cloud go bare metal and that's completely unmanageable. Basically a pair of hig

You were lucky to have a guy with VMWare experience. Most startups who avoid the cloud go bare metal and that's completely unmanageable. Basically a pair of high memory servers running every services with no isolation whatsoever. By the way, Vmware is not exactly cheap either. I recall when I was selling VMWare licenses 10 years ago, it was starting around $5000 per server.