What would Stack Exchange's yearly expenses be if it were to be using a third party host?
- by abel
StackExchange manages it's own servers, as it should, but if SE were to be hosted on a 3rd party "cloud" hosting (like Amazon's), what would it's monthly / yearly expenses be(keeping everything else the same)?
A detailed answer comparing it to the bills that Stackexchange boots currently (including power/property/staff) would help.
(PS: I know that the blog is a good resource. I also understand that managing your own hosting is almost the same as setting up a hosting company and using it for your own needs.
Plus is this a question for meta or does it fit within serverfault's purview?)