I might be wrong by I think you missed maybe the most important keyword: backup. You can't fix a missing/corrupted backup, at this point it's too late. So you n

I might be wrong by I think you missed maybe the most important keyword: backup. You can't fix a missing/corrupted backup, at this point it's too late. So you need to get it right. It's not like, say, configuring nginx. If you get nginx wrong you just fix it. If you need a backup and it's not there you can't fix it, it's (likely) game over. So outsourcing the database is a very logical thing to do: if you can trust a third party to have a reliable backup/recovery story, that's one thing that can kill your business that you don't have to worry about.