I love all the comments trying to explain that managing your own hardware, storage, network and backup cannot take that much of your time.

Not only it does take a huge amount of time, but it takes so much time that it require multiple dedicated highly-skilled people.

Last but not least, the last article about Gitlab was about a major outage where they had as much as 6 out of 6 backups unusable! The fact that they still exist today is to the sheer luck that there was an unexpected copy made manually before the disaster.

That speaks at length on how that 100 people company is struggling to have the resources and the qualifications it needs to execute (what startup isn't?). Let's not send them on a suicide mission to manage their own hardware on top of everything they already have to achieve. ;)