Every business wants to scale, not many do. There's no real difference between a startup and a small business, except perhaps how strong or realistic the dreams

Every business wants to scale, not many do. There's no real difference between a startup and a small business, except perhaps how strong or realistic the dreams are. Consider that even VC-backed Google started out with lots of cost saving measures in place. Once they brought their second datacenter online, the way they uploaded the index to it was Lucas putting a big stack of hard drives in the boot of his car and driving across the USA to plug them in. This continued for a while until they were able to strike a special deal on bandwidth. That was just one of the unconventional things they did to save money. Using Linux was another. Although we now think of what Google did as obvious, at the time it was considered bizarre and radical that a search engine company - a software company - would rack bare motherboards onto corkboard bases, just to save money. All their competitors were running on commercial UNIX big iron. https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/hyperscalers/looking-back-google-s-first-data-center https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/hyperscalers/looking-bac...