> I personally prefer saving time and effort, over a ~$500 monetary discount.
Completely agree. As the general "Ops" manager, I hate getting the call at 2am because something broke... I hate it even more when it's not really fixable by me in the first place (e.g. black box appliance or software).. but I feel a heck of a lot better when I can point the finger at an external team that's paid and supposed to be experts... If you outsourced Redis or you DB, and someone like AWS or MongoDB themselves has an issue... Will they pay people a lot of money to simply provide that service reliably... I get paid to keep 20 things connected, not be the subject matter expert in all of them.
I think if I were the CEO I'd have even more on my mind than managing servers.
I totally get that it can be cheaper to do things yourself. And I also get that sometimes you literally can't afford to go the easier route.
But I also think a lot of people of forums like this overly discount time spent or even just distraction that take away from doing the many other things you could be working on as part of a business.
Completely agree. As the general "Ops" manager, I hate getting the call at 2am because something broke... I hate it even more when it's not really fixable by me in the first place (e.g. black box appliance or software).. but I feel a heck of a lot better when I can point the finger at an external team that's paid and supposed to be experts... If you outsourced Redis or you DB, and someone like AWS or MongoDB themselves has an issue... Will they pay people a lot of money to simply provide that service reliably... I get paid to keep 20 things connected, not be the subject matter expert in all of them.