>For a lot of start-ups rolling their own infrastructure is generally a giant waste of time and money in both short and long term run.
Exactly. Which is why people go to Rackspace: not having to hire their own in-house DevOps guy (which doesn't scale as your servers grow) to take care of their servers.
Not sure where I mentioned that I don't how to do that. But thanks?
> The savings is exponential.
For a lot of start-ups rolling their own infrastructure is generally a giant waste of time and money in both short and long term run.