You'll often find angry greybeards on here griping about how you shouldn't do X or Y. Don't run your own mail, don't write your own crypto, don't run K8s. And you'll also find greenhorns talking about how they've been doing X for 10 years and never had a problem.

The thing is, both perspectives are valid. It's true that you can sometimes do really complicated things yourself and it can work out fine. And you can also get burned really easily. So the reader needs to figure out for themselves what the risk is and if it's worth it.

But there are things we should all do that are just never easy to do right, like.... backups. There's just no cheap and easy and good way. If you want real off-site backups, you're going to have to either pay a small fortune for a managed service (either in subscription fees or network egress fees or both), or physically carry a bunch of drives or tapes somewhere else weekly/monthly. And of course you also have to restore regularly or the whole thing could be a waste. It's just a pain.