Even with enough skill this takes time. And you'd want logs, backups, monitoring. And you'd want infra-as-code, otherwise you end up with a snowflake. Even if

Even with enough skill this takes time. And you'd want logs, backups, monitoring. And you'd want infra-as-code, otherwise you end up with a snowflake. Even if this takes an hour of your time saving that hour pays for like a year of Hippobase. So whether or not this is valuable is subjective, depends on what you see as good use of your time.