I didn't downvote you but I would assume it's because your message seems like the beginning of a flamewar and is also poorly written (Reddit quality). If you a

I didn't downvote you but I would assume it's because your message seems like the beginning of a flamewar and is also poorly written (Reddit quality). If you are actually interested, here's a report one of our sys admins did a couple years ago estimating how much it would cost to have us running on "the cloud" - http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/73969/what-would-stack-exchanges-yearly-expenses-be-if-it-were-to-be-using-a-third-pa/73978#73978 http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/73969/what-would-sta...