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Not really, but I'll buy hardware with a guaranteed service length. For example, the service is guaranteed for 7 years after activation.



Might as well make it 20 years. For something like a remote control you can fit 100k users on a server, and a little bit of money per device can go an extremely long way. Extra large ec2 servers (which you can easily do better than on cost) are about a thousand dollars a year, and you only need a few hours of sysadmin work per month across the entire fleet.

And you can cut servers as people end up using devices less on their own.




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