I mostly agree, but this is a double-edged sword. I recently had a 6 hour outage due to lots and lots of waiting on a fix from our managed database provider. Ha

I mostly agree, but this is a double-edged sword. I recently had a 6 hour outage due to lots and lots of waiting on a fix from our managed database provider. Had we been running the DB ourselves, I would have had the permissions to monitor the DB and caught the issue early (it was a pretty trivial thing to monitor). If we had gone down, I would have been able to run my restore within an hour, rather than 6. And lastly, self-hosted performance was much better than it's been with a managed DB.