aye - and it took time to setup all of those things, time to maintain the gear, delays for business/dev teams while the IT department made sure they knew how to

aye - and it took time to setup all of those things, time to maintain the gear, delays for business/dev teams while the IT department made sure they knew how to run something stably. > Build servers took a day or so depending on the approval chain. This would only be true in a large shop with cold spares or virtualization. Server hardware generally has a 6-12 week lead time. The exception being if you are paying out the nose to a reseller who could do faster delivery. Just imagine the time it took to setup Nagios or Zabbix for monitoring. In a small shop you are probably talking about at least 1-3 days of work + calendar time for hardware. Add to that some time for dealing with scale of metrics storage etc. depending on the shop.