He lost me much earlier: In other words, let's say you're buying a server from Dell for $5,800 dollars and you expect to use that server for 3 years. You also

He lost me much earlier: In other words, let's say you're buying a server from Dell for $5,800 dollars and you expect to use that server for 3 years. You also have to pay a 10% annual maintenance fee on that server, so the total cost over three years is $7,540. So a running server costs a measly 48 dollars per month in maintance? This may be true when you're operating on amazon scales (when you are amazon) but for the average website-owner power, cooling, rackspace and hardware failures!! normally amount to a tiny bit more than that. And once you take human<->machine facetime into the equation (by sending your admins over or by hiring remote hands) amazon begins to look not too shabby anymore.