Not saying its totally worth it, but the upside is that they take care of power ...

habosa on July 22, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: StackOverflow Update: 560M Pageviews a Month, 25 S...

Not saying its totally worth it, but the upside is that they take care of power costs, physical space costs, networking, and if the hardware fails they'll put your application on a new server. Basically you take all of the risk out the equation.