> In general, it's easier to ask for a $500k instrument, or take $10k trips to conferences, than get $10/month subscription for some web hosting company. Academ

> In general, it's easier to ask for a $500k instrument, or take $10k trips to conferences, than get $10/month subscription for some web hosting company. Academia can be really behind on this front. Had to fight to get paid most months; but the $2mil grant for a computing cluster went through and the Supervisor never had a problem getting their monthly trip to a conference through.