[Nextgrid]

> patching switch firmware, balancing UPS loads, diagnosing flaky switch ports or transceivers, managing logging growth

I've never had to worry about messing with switches/cabling/UPSes with my Hetzner or OVH servers.

I'm not sure why people always believe that bare-metal == self-managed colo. That's not the case and colo only really makes sense for very large companies who can actually save by buying & managing their own hardware or have specific requirements that dedicated server providers don't offer.

Log growth can be addressed by using a managed service (including AWS Cloudwatch if you really wanted to, but you'd have to be a masochist). Frankly, you'd have the same issue if you were on EC2.