I'm running about 10 servers myself in production. They just do transcoding, so aren't mission-critical, but... - Regularly patching is automated and took abou

I'm running about 10 servers myself in production. They just do transcoding, so aren't mission-critical, but... - Regularly patching is automated and took about 30 seconds to configure, using an automated script Regarding running your own physical servers, that is a different ballgame, but for all of my projects, if I need to: - I can pretty easily spin up VPSs / bare metal servers anywhere (netcup, linode, hetzner, etc) and provision there while I wait for new hardware to come in - If you want to double the capacity of your current hardware, you'll have to order it and wait, but it's cheap (vs the major cloud providers) to way over provision if you're running your own physical hardware, so you can pretty easily have 2-4x extra capacity and still come out with extra money in your pocket. I host in the cloud, but I think people vastly over estimate how much it saves 90% of cloud customers.