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He did say that he believes it's better to host in two cheap places than one expensive one....

Aside: back in the early days, a lot of YC startups hosted at HE. I think it was one of the first JTV colos, actually.

Disagree. Twice the headache. Put all your eggs in one basket then watch that basket. Get bigger, repeat. I'd go from 2 to 3 faster than 1 to 2.

I don't think he was making an argument for ease of maintenance, but rather, reliability per dollar. Even if you've got two crappy datacenters, you're at least redundantly crappy.

That only works if you value sysadmin time at $0/hr.

You need a capable sysadmin anyways. It makes sense to pay her/him to design and scale your "platform" properly, especially if you're making any money from it.

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