Yeah, from the blog post: > I’ve a good friend at a startup who found a co-lo data center in a small college town in Virginia, where they were able to build ou

Yeah, from the blog post: > I’ve a good friend at a startup who found a co-lo data center in a small college town in Virginia, where they were able to build out a massive MongoDB database, sharded across 4 massive servers, each server holding 256 gigabytes of RAM, 1 terabyte of RAM in total. They also had a Cassandra database and several servers for their front-end. They were paying $7,000 a month for this. Like, if you're paying AWS to host MongoDB on four EC2 machines with 256gb of RAM each and no autoscaling/load balancing, you can spend a lot of money. But... why would you do that? Porting terrible architectures to cloud VMs with no rearchitecting costs a boatload, but... don't do that?