An excellent way of putting it ekidd. Exactly what I came here to say. I work for a small startup and I am the one wearing the sysadmin hat most of the time, an

An excellent way of putting it ekidd. Exactly what I came here to say. I work for a small startup and I am the one wearing the sysadmin hat most of the time, and every single day I imagine these disaster modes where it could cost us almost triple what we would have payed Heroku and others (Granted, we have technical reasons why we are using bare servers, nothing to do with money). Icing on the cake is that I am going on vacation this coming Tuesday. :D Always reason about stuff like this in terms of disasters. They are far more lethal to our company than the occasional $1000 you will be giving a dedicated hosting service.