I am one of those guys who can do that kind of custom setup for large scale high volume sites and the actual setup is not as complicated as it sounds. The maint

I am one of those guys who can do that kind of custom setup for large scale high volume sites and the actual setup is not as complicated as it sounds. The maintenance is literally a day a month, if that. You can even automate it if you like. And if you have me on a maintenance retainer then you are not paying the equivalent of my $X00K per year salary. All of my clients who don't have their own corp DevOps team like having someone they know and can call at any time with issues instead of submitting a support ticket and waiting. Again, it all comes down to what percentage of our income do we feel comfortable spending on infrastructure? It has nothing to do with oh my - $X00 or $X000 per month sounds expensive.