I think what may have triggered people here were the absolute terms (can’t remember ever having to do “maintaining” after the initial setup). In this forum you

I think what may have triggered people here were the absolute terms (can’t remember ever having to do “maintaining” after the initial setup). In this forum you'll be hard pressed to find someone who thinks it's a good idea to leave a cloud-based (or any internet-facing, really) server completely without maintenance for any significant period of time. If you had said that usually it's as simple as checking in every now and again to reboot / make sure security updates are installed / check functionality and that it's a manageable burden which is worth the effort you might have gotten a more favourable response. Edit: or if you had automated it to an acceptable level, maybe some more information about that.