Lots of startups fail. Lots more get lucky just not having anywhere close to five 9s or people that just don't take vacations, leave, get sick, etc. Been there

Lots of startups fail. Lots more get lucky just not having anywhere close to five 9s or people that just don't take vacations, leave, get sick, etc. Been there done that. The wiser move is to outsource risk like that to cloud services. It will cost you but far less than hiring a team to get your five nines of uptime would. I maintain several clusters and we have a few people that can do some emergency fixes. But I am a bottleneck when it comes to knowing how to. Having BSD in the mix would make this far worse for us.