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title: "Why Early Stage Startups Aren't Buying Hardware"
date: 2007-07-30T10:40:59Z
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> [happily bringing up multiple instances of Dopplr on amazon ec2, each with their own mysql slaved over ssh tunnel from the master. works!](http://twitter.com/mattb/statuses/175296492)

 – [Matt Biddulph](http://www.hackdiary.com/) [Dopplr](http://www.dopplr.com/main/about) CTO. The problem with hardware provisioning is that it isn’t

![fun](http://www.hackdiary.com/images/biddulph_fun.jpg)

disclosure: I share an office with Matt