^^^ 1000x One big pain that no one seems to mention are the mundane details that come with running your own DC. Even in our fairly small operation we had half

^^^ 1000x One big pain that no one seems to mention are the mundane details that come with running your own DC. Even in our fairly small operation we had half of a person dedicated to maintaining the warranties on the hardware, sourcing replacement hard drives for 10yo servers, disposing of retired hardware, purchasing new hardware, etc. These things take a huge amount of focus and don't contribute to your product at all. The "cloud" has removed all of this busywork and I wouldn't go back to the old way for almost any amount of money.