If 800 is not gonna make a difference, why not increase the dev's salary with 800? Apparently he is concerned about cashflow, so he probably doesn't get paid en

If 800 is not gonna make a difference, why not increase the dev's salary with 800? Apparently he is concerned about cashflow, so he probably doesn't get paid enough to not care, or things like a better working machine are difficult to get. Hetzner provides cheap and performant VPSses. Depending on the geo, it might be a better fit. CTO says they have to expertise in "systems administration", yet they're running VPSes, and not managed services. This is exactly where some dev installs some software which is accessible by default. There you have your little dataleak. So imo, CTO is wrong, but post doesn't have to be right per se.