> The whole thing would work just fine on a couple of FreeBSD servers And you need dev servers. And a way to keep them in sync with production because you can

> The whole thing would work just fine on a couple of FreeBSD servers And you need dev servers. And a way to keep them in sync with production because you can’t just create a branch and provision a bare metal server on the fly. And you need a deployment process to get code from dev through test, UAT and production, and this process is lengthy and fraught because you can’t just fire up a new instance and switch the elastic IP, you actually have to deploy code on the physical machine and make sure there aren’t any configuration differences between your test and prod environments that’ll cause ‘it worked before’ problems. Developer productivity tanks, people are afraid to make changes, any pretence of agile/devops goes out the window and eventually everyone gets sick of the crusty old server and decides a complete rewrite is needed.