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> there's no colo that will move the gear along with me when I go on vacation

This is actually the main one for me. I've managed our own servers for a decade with almost zero downtime, and very little time spent at the colo. But you cannot safely go out of town without having someone else around who is familiar enough with your setup to deal with an outage.

So moving stuff to AWS now almost entirely for that reason.