Hope he is demanding an obscene salary also, given he is the only thing keeping that server running. I wouldn't do it for less than 300k/yr, probably closer to 400k.
The cloud is a scam, its just someone else's computer. If you're a smallish company you're going to be better off in the long run investing in your own hardware and some well paid people that can maintain it. At a certain point it gets harder to scale, but at that point you'll be rolling in the dough if you played your cards right.
Hope he is demanding an obscene salary also, given he is the only thing keeping that server running. I wouldn't do it for less than 300k/yr, probably closer to 400k.
The cloud is a scam, its just someone else's computer. If you're a smallish company you're going to be better off in the long run investing in your own hardware and some well paid people that can maintain it. At a certain point it gets harder to scale, but at that point you'll be rolling in the dough if you played your cards right.