I'm a bit curious about this. If you have 140M concurrent users (since this was the original complaint) and you are NOT prepared or capable of servicing/monitoring/maintaining 1000 servers, that seems like a fatal flaw in your server management and analytics processes.

Certainly 47 servers vs. 1000 is far nicer. But at 140M concurrent users levels (there must only be a few handfuls of sites with these types of concerns), not having a team prepared to oversee 1000 servers seems like folly.