This is just not true. A properly set up system requires very little manual work. Updated, monitoring, and alerting are all automated. I help manage ~50 on pre

This is just not true. A properly set up system requires very little manual work. Updated, monitoring, and alerting are all automated. I help manage ~50 on prem servers plus NAS, switches, etc. Over the past three years, I have had to replace one hard drive and one power supply. And neither of those brought anything down because of redundancy. We get alerts when something goes wrong, but that is a rare occurrence. This is my original point: servers won't just explode the minute you look away. It is not a full time job to "manage" them, unless you are at a real datacenter scale where a 1/1000 event happens twice a day. You set them up and then they continue to do what they do for a very long time.