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> primarily because it is less pain than managing own servers

I would take a good, long, hard look at any decisions you've made on this basis.

You haven't avoided the pain, you've deferred it. Would it be better to deal with that pain now when you have no users and no critical data, or later when scheduled downtime is a major issue?

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Another way to look at this might be - do you want to deal with this now as a sole dev/ops/etc person of many hats or later, when you can hire someone to look after this?

Also, for lots of things there is really no need to host your own servers. It's going to cost more and be less reliable unless you get to a much larger stage or have a lot of computational requirements.

this is also true.

It's a calculated risk: Is the business revenue going to grow faster than the pain from these decisions?

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