Maybe putting the laptop in the data center lets you do the launch. Maybe the launch is a flop because you forgot to advertise it. Maybe you raise series A funding; maybe you don't and the site dies in three months, still happily running on the laptop. Maybe someone decides to re-write the product in a different stack. Maybe the product was wrong and needs to pivot.
A lot of products have shipped and succeeded with absurd hacks in them. Hex-editing the binary to change "EMM386 Memory Error.." to "Thank you for playing Wing Commander", etc.
Maybe putting the laptop in the data center lets you do the launch. Maybe the launch is a flop because you forgot to advertise it. Maybe you raise series A funding; maybe you don't and the site dies in three months, still happily running on the laptop. Maybe someone decides to re-write the product in a different stack. Maybe the product was wrong and needs to pivot.
A lot of products have shipped and succeeded with absurd hacks in them. Hex-editing the binary to change "EMM386 Memory Error.." to "Thank you for playing Wing Commander", etc.