"""We are going to say we used four hours of labor. This includes drive time to the primary data center. Since it is far away (18-20 minute drive), we actually did not go there for several quarters. So over 32 months, we had budgeted $640 for remote hands. We effectively either paid $160/ hr or paid less than that even rounding up to four hours. """
Software and systems configuration wise you aren't really going to be doing much different timewise then you would by doing loop de loops with AWS configuration stuff anyway. Tftp etc is just not that tough.