[nwilkens]

It does look to be a good price/value.. though I wonder if they continue with that under Akamai. We're at the $250/server price point -- and we include a number of items:

  - Realtime kernel/lib patching.
  - Patch management.
  - 24x7 monitoring and response.
  - Metric collections, alerting, and health reviews. 
  - Tuning and infrastructure best practices wherever you are (AWS/GCP/Azure/mnx/colo).
  - Ad-hoc support - example this week -- one customer who runs large ecommerce valentine day related -- needed eyes on all infrastructure.  We sat in slack with them, and huddled realtime to work through any issues.

[RowanH]

Thanks - appreciate the reply ! Will keep you guys in mind in the future. Translating it into real terms, at an early (early) stage bootstrapped, $2500USD/month = $48'000NZD per annum which is about 1/3 of a good full stack salary in New Zealand.

I can certainly see in future when we're a bit bigger it might be interesting and having a lot more infrastructure to manage - but right now when we've barely (infact only once in past year had an issue) then not quite justifiable.

Like I say, it's that awful middle ground of "can't really justify it, but also would like to be able to switch off!" I'll reach out to stay in touch for future.