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by jacques_chester 5478 days ago
Due to the combination of MS tax and the relatively small amount of competition in MS-stack hosting, doubling his server set will raise his expenses to $1200 per month.

In terms of pure revenue break-even, he's looking at 6 days downtime to make back the money. But he's talking about 5 minute scheduled downtimes to apply patches.