Or perhaps it should be renamed, "Why the cloud IS for your startup." This explains how it's cheaper to deploy on metal for high traffic sites, as if $1000/mon

Or perhaps it should be renamed, "Why the cloud IS for your startup." This explains how it's cheaper to deploy on metal for high traffic sites, as if $1000/month in server costs in the event that my site gets massive traffic matters. With Heroku, I can have a site up and running in minutes with zero sysadmin work and almost no monthly cost. Should my site get hammered, I'm happy to pay $1000, heck $3000 per month, for a few months should it be necessary to handle traffic until I get my act together to reduce costs on dedicated servers. At that price, you can be damn sure you get good support from Heroku. Compare that to spending a large portion, or even a small portion, of energy and time that could be dedicated to building your product before you even know if you'll get traction - I'll take the cloud any day. If sysadmin work is so easy to learn, or to farm out with money, it can wait until I need it.