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That well defined setup with load balancer, multiple VMS, snapshotting as backup, von/ipsec and vlan was something I couldn't have build and maintained by myself and doing other things 15 years ago without cloud.
The worst is that a lot of "specialized" people are actually not experts at all. They are just there as support person's.
From 3 DB admins one was really good and the other 2 sucked (other company again). The one you never saw comes to you, starts thing on an oracle shell basically blind and does complex things and the other two you tell them what they forgot.
As an admin your job is seldomly to optimize queries etc. But more adding and removing users, configuring backups, playing back backups, upgrading etc.
At least for me it opened up what I can do as a single expert and faster and in better quality.
I would highly recommend normal companies who think they are not an it company (everyone is one today) to run in the cloud only.
A few grant infrastructure cost for any modern company is nothing and an outage costs you much more.
You can also bet that proper backup is either missing or was paid for expensive enough.
On Aws you activate snapshots and that's it.
I had a hetzner server for years and now again.
Normal consumer hardware without any magic for very good prices.
I made even 10tb traffic and run Rosetta 24/7 for 2 years without any issues.
Just expect downtime if that's your only server and it breaks.
The last few years it got really crazy what you get for 50bucks a month.
Bought it 2 weeks ago for 60/month.
Or are you referencing something like CPU shortage at that model?