This is nothing more then trying to pay the interest on your technical debt instead of paying off the balance. The longer you wait the more it grows and the big

This is nothing more then trying to pay the interest on your technical debt instead of paying off the balance. The longer you wait the more it grows and the bigger the problem becomes down the road. Right now its 20K for a new system, And for your troubles you still get no redundancy. Yes ram is cheap and you can just buy a bigger system next year, but hopefully you will hit a limit (growth is like that) then you will need to scale your now large and complex system. Code will need to be reworked. Interfaces will need to be re architected. The guy who wrote that bit of code for you that runs your whole business he may not be with you any more, even if he is that hack he put in place because you had the horsepower to spare, he doesn't really remember why he did it at 3:00am that one morning when stuff got out of hand. Now you have downtime and huge development costs, because you ignored a problem and instead threw hardware at it.