That's very odd. James Golick of Fetlife had the opposite experience with Softlayer (link to his video in my post). I currently manage ~40 servers on EC2 and I

That's very odd. James Golick of Fetlife had the opposite experience with Softlayer (link to his video in my post). I currently manage ~40 servers on EC2 and I'm confident that I could get away with just 5 "decent" dedicated boxes. EC2 gets expensive quickly, but most and foremost, managing so many instances is quite a headache.