> Imagine IT people are the same, instead of assuming they're all idiots who are too stupid to go out and buy desktop computers instead of servers like your gen

> Imagine IT people are the same, instead of assuming they're all idiots who are too stupid to go out and buy desktop computers instead of servers like your genius self. Nearly all of your assumption here are incorrect or flawed, except the redundant PSU (we only had one). But, I do think they're just like me: working in a non-ideal environment with constraints outside of our direct control. The non-ideal constraint that they had, in that instance, at that time, was that they could only give us a VPS with 4 threads. It wasn't possible to do what we needed with their server. Or, to put it into your language, five nines doesn't mean shit if, in practicality, it makes a reliable space heater.