> If their website is a core part of their business, it's enormous - they're getting the peace of mind that if anything happens they have someone reliable they can call to get things fixed.
Good point! This is kind of what I was thinking: since they are a software company, the value of $1000/month is like you never have to worry about your company suddenly breaking.
> You've been doing it for a few months, so you have an idea of how disruptive it is, and having done it for free, the thought of $1000 for doing the same thing may sound nice now, but be sure to extrapolate it out another 6 months or so of being tethered 24x7 to work, and price it based on how you're going to feel then, not now.
That can't be right if, according to OP, the first result was a reddit post from six years ago, yet the date according to Google was Jan 11, 2020. So the first time Google saw that page would likely have been the day it was published.