No, you didn't, but we all knew you were talking about Hetzner. One company, selling consumer-grade desktop parts unfit for use in a production server, in one country, does not lend credibility to statements like you made. Neither does the NYC site with no info, no SLA, and again, desktop parts. It's something like saying salary isn't important to startups because labor costs in China are pennies per hour.
It's 2012 for god's sake, and 32GB RAM servers are still hundreds of dollars a month to rent from any first class data center.
This is a bit of a tangent, but do you have any sources for consumer-grade desktop parts being lower quality than enterprise-grade? I'd like to read an in-depth hardware analysis that describes circuit board design, capacitor sourcing, etc.
I'm really curious to see how different equivalently priced ASUS and supermicro boards differ.
You can split hairs all you like, Dan, but you're still missing the point: scalability is only an issue for a fraction of the entrepreneurs/engineers who worry about it.
Where, in the US, can I rent a 32GB server for less than $100?