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Right. But most developers aren't server admins and don't want to be.

I press a few buttons and a server is up and ready! :)

Right. And I meant, manual provisioning as the "worst" case, but even that shouldn't take 30 minutes.

I vaguely remember LAMP VPS hostings from years ago, and I believe they mostly had 1-click installs for popular software. Here is a random video I've Googled up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwlNBTvFfCA (2009), showing installing Wordpress from Plesk. Installation took 8 minutes even with verbose explanations for every step. How your service is different?

Of course. But 1 minute is better than 30, right?

And then you have to maintain it.

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