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Great discussion - would be an interesting poll to see exactly what hardware setups HN users run. When looking at options for our bootstrapped startup, was very surprised to find the costs of Amazon compared to dedicated boxes, or even a couple of dedicated VPS instances. It appears so many people I have spoken to who use AWS do not even automatically spin up instances when they need them, so have to manually react and then bring them up... And another startup who have automatically scaled up the instances have also had massive bills when someone found a loophole and distributed manga art via their services.