What?! Maybe if you hire SV-skilled engineers on location in Sillicon Valley, but you can easily serve 2GB/second (on infra worth $2K/month) with one sys-admin dealing with it, and for way less than a whopping $10k/month.
And if that one sys-admin wants to go on vacation? Or travel away from a computer? Or takes another job?
You can never have “just one” admin handling a server and being on-call 24/7.
Would you really want a job where you could never, ever be away from a computer because you’re the only on-call person? This doesn’t work.
Works fine for me. $20K a month for two people doing f*k all is insane.