> Hardware specialist, Network specialist, Data center environment specialist If we're talking startups here, still working on product market fit with small ac

> Hardware specialist, Network specialist, Data center environment specialist If we're talking startups here, still working on product market fit with small active user counts.. this is massive overkill. Every startup I've been part of (except one) could've very easily been hosted from a single server under someone's desk (sure, get two for redundancy). The cost would be approximately nothing instead of a 5 figure AWS monthly bill. This isn't resume-building though, so it doesn't happen. (Amusingly, the one startup I was part of that grew way too big for my "server under the desk" hosting model, they went to a colocated datacenter.) > Security specialist Yes you always need this if you're going to have anything connected on the internet.