> hire a freelance DBA to check in on the servers once a day Not sure whether you were just interested in the author's specific freelancer but-- The term for

> hire a freelance DBA to check in on the servers once a day Not sure whether you were just interested in the author's specific freelancer but-- The term for this is "Remote DBA" and there are lots of them. I suppose the difficult part is confirming trustworthiness and skills before giving them direct access to your database.