Random somewhat on-topic question. How does one measure ones technical capability to keep up services that are more available and dependent than third party solutions? I mean obviously starting out, almost everybody can benefit from doing a lot of stuff not in-house, but at some point you'd be able to do better yourselves. But then maybe for certain services from certain providers, raw technical capability never catc…
By the time you're talking about 99.9% uptime there is only 9 hours downtime a year so there isn't much wiggle room for failure. There is never a reason any one person should assume they can do better than a third party because you're likely sleeping 2920 hours a year. Basically, you're never good enough on your own. If you care about uptime you're going to need to pay good money for it.