[matt_wulfeck]

I would argue that from a management point of view it's actually a lot nicer for small places to offload to third parties. As a point, my original comment pointed out that somebody else is on-call for that services uptime.

[vacri]

I agree with you; outsourcing those services certainly helps this one-man ops team. But for a larger company with a more mature and staffed ops team, there's going to be that advantage above.