[dijit]

Ops is an interesting domain, nobody knows what they do until they don't do it; so everyone wants the jobs to disappear, and when they do it's fun what happens.

I'm beyond certain that someone will reply "use a cloud provider", which is ironic, as cloud providers just concentrate these kinds of ops people and charge you through the nose (often an order of magnitude more in my experience) than having people responsible.

Unpopular opinion, probably, because people seem to like dehumanising operations issues on this site- sure, things can be automated, but at some point there's got to be some responsibility.

[vasco]

If a technical person is even close to involved with paying for a SaaS Discourse forum hosting something is extremely wrong. This is part of business operations or finance. This is already a "cloud provider". It's the same as paying for Google Workspace or an HR platform.

[vednig]

^This is the most sensible understanding of the space, in my opinion

[testrun]

I agree, ops is like a toilet. Nobody cares, until it does not work.