> Except that's not how anyone did it. I can affirmatively tell you that more than one of my employers, successful startups several years in, _did_ do this whe

> Except that's not how anyone did it. I can affirmatively tell you that more than one of my employers, successful startups several years in, _did_ do this when I started. Anyway, I don't blame people that get burned by this, very little in hosting is obvious. That's a great example of why people need skilled ops help. Understanding how one computer connected to a cablemodem works and understanding what happens inside of a datacenter are very different things.