[generalk]

  > You'd be surprised how many great FOSS (free & open source 
  > software) are out there that you can deploy on your own VM 
  > and have unlimited number of team members and OWN YOUR OWN 
  > DATA!!!

I'd love to run some open-source stuff for analytics or error tracking or application monitoring. And we have, in the past. And they work pretty well. When they work.

If the VM disk starts filling up because log rotation wasn't set up right, or the ElasticSearch instance we only run for this service starts flapping, now I've gotta pay one of my devs to work on that instead of work on our product. And in your example, where I've only got three folks, that interruption could be ruinous.

$200/mo ($2,400/yr) is nothing compared to the financial and opportunity costs here.