[tbrownaw]

And all of that takes, what, a week? As a one time thing?

[jcynix]

Takes less than a day, because most of the stuff is scriptable. And for a simple compute node setup at Hetzner (I.e. no bare metal, but just a VM) it takes me less than half an hour.

[tbrownaw]

But if you're that familiar with it, the overpriced turnkey stuff wouldn't look so tempting in the first place.