Part of the problem is at smaller companies, managing your own infrastructure is just a part time job. So you have to outsource it to someone you trust, find s

Part of the problem is at smaller companies, managing your own infrastructure is just a part time job. So you have to outsource it to someone you trust, find someone in your company that wants to moonlight as a sysadmin for 10-20 minutes/day, or pay a full time employee to not do that much. How much time you have to spend is generally related to how many servers you have. In my experience, if you have automation setup correctly (1-2 weeks) you can average around 5 hours per month to manage about 30 servers.