I was curious about that myself. What's the best way to model the costs associated with maintenance overhead that comes with bare-metal, vs the savings from managing bare-metal servers using a service (like packet), co-locating your own hardware or running your own datacenter.
This is such a shame.. I have no idea need for any of mailchimps services, yet now I'm forced to pay for it? Why? From what I can figure out from the pricing page, this nearly 10x's our monthly cost. NOPE
Later Mandrill.
I'm more sad than angry.. it was an incredible product.
My gut feeling is that you have to get to an extraordinary size to realize any meaningful savings, but that's primarily based on Dropbox's migration off AWS (https://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-ama...).