[jasonkester]

I get the sense that your numbers are based on speculation rather than hard data.

I have several examples of sub 1 week development time to first release from projects we've done in the last few years. But then the initial deploy for those projects, on average, took about 20 minutes of one person's time.

Iterative development often goes hand-in-hand with iterative deployment. Somewhere during week 3, we'd spend an hour moving onto an automated build and deploy system, and from there on out it would be push-button.

Once, and only once, the site got big enough to need its own dedicated box at a colo, so that added an extra couple days building a server, driving it to the facility and moving the site. But by then we were 3 months into development, so the effort was nowhere near 25% of our total spent man hours.

Cool idea for a service though. But maybe you're painting the picture a little more dire than it needs to be.