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by brongondwana 4121 days ago
We run about a hundred servers (soon to be lots more) with a part time staff of 3 (as in, we all do dev work most of the time). It used to be mostly me for ages, but we got big enough that I got promoted out of most of the day-to-day stuff.

All own hardware, and having just had a reboot on Softlayer's schedule to fix the Xen issue for a separate project we're running on their gear - being able to schedule your own maintenance windows is so much nicer. We spend less time dealing with problems on our own hardware than we do dealing with cloud providers having issues.