peacemaker

Does anyone have any good suggestions of affordable decent Windows Server hosting with 32GB+ RAM? All the obvious hosts charge a ridiculous amount and can't seem to keep up with the demand either.

Perhaps I'm being unreasonable? I run a service that needs to render lots of videos using After Effects and Media Encoder and so far I've not been able to find a server under $200/m that can keep up with 6-9 renders going on at the same time.

Would I be better off having many small servers running 1-2 instead? I've recently taken over this service and this is the main bottleneck so any suggestions would be much appreciated.

I'm trying to get an idea of what to expect in terms and salary and stock for a CTO/Co-founder position at a startup. This is a startup that has raised money and working towards series A and is earning some revenue already.

A few searches online show wildly different figures so I thought I'd ask here and see if anyone has experience in this area to share?

While I'm really looking forward to working at this startup and in a new role, obviously I want to make sure I'm compensated fairly and have a good chance of doing well in any liquidation events in the future.

This is in London, UK by the way.