[mootpointer]

Disclaimer: I'm a Ninefold employee.

I can see how that claim could sound pretty ludicrous. A startup coming from nothing isn't going to get $100 Million to spend on hardware.

We're backed by a publicly listed Australian company: Macquarie Telecom. We've built upon their investment in datacenters and fiber connections between them as well as racks, servers, switches, routers, power etc.

We thought it was important to call out that we're not a fly-by-night operation, hosted in an office cupboard. We (and our backers) have ploughed serious capital and we're serious about what we're doing. I understand that we may not have explained very well how that investment works.

All that said, we have the advantage that most platform providers don't: capital invested in hardware which means that we don't have to rely on another provider (such as AWS) for compute resources.

[ilaksh]

OK, so I think you should say that on the site. How much of that $100 million investment can Ninefold actually access today in order to spin up servers? The way you phrased it is not truthful, and makes it sound like you built a bunch of mainly unused custom datacenters full of racks and are just waiting with your fingers crossed for the hoardes of Heroku defectors to come and load up the servers.