It's definitely viable. I'm waiting to see what the bill was for the hardware costs, but I'm expecting it'll be a few $K. We had a lot of sysadmin on hand to

It's definitely viable. I'm waiting to see what the bill was for the hardware costs, but I'm expecting it'll be a few $K. We had a lot of sysadmin on hand to try to keep it happy over the weekend though (but having learnt from the misadventures, subsequent events should be much easier).