No need to get outside funding for any of this. It can all be done on the cheap. I agree though, how can it take months to reset up a server? Late last year

No need to get outside funding for any of this. It can all be done on the cheap. I agree though, how can it take months to reset up a server? Late last year I had both of our supposedly redundant webservers fail at the same time - never happens, right? ;) We were able to get two entirely separate boxes setup with the same static addresses in under an hour due to maintaining all possible configuration in svn. Worse, this was on windows servers where we couldn't use something like puppet or one of the other 20 solutions to script your configuration.