Lifecycle cannot be underestimated. The average life expectancy of a server is over 3 years. I'm pretty much running on a five year cycle, right now, for most o

Lifecycle cannot be underestimated. The average life expectancy of a server is over 3 years. I'm pretty much running on a five year cycle, right now, for most of mine. It's a huge time cost to have to deploy a new OS more frequently than you deploy new servers.