I mean, often enough even that phone call won’t help.

But you’re right, as long as everything is working normally, working on premises slows you down to do maintenance, updates etc etc. Cloud (of all kinds) takes that work away and you can work faster. And in the VC-driven daily and eternal grind, moving faster is the only thing that matters.

You ever got anything so good you could publish?

Well, the API angle is similar to Space Traders

yeah, traceroute might hint at that, if this is what is going on.

So, send’em a dicpic and you’re in :)