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> high quality health insurance in a western country

This is less true than it used to be.

You obviusly dont insure a family of 5 and I suspect dont actually use the healthcare system.

Man, I feel old. I remember feeling this way during dot-com bubble. The few months of unemployment grounded me. Anyway, better positioned this time. History is a good teacher.

I have done many postgres deploys on bare metal. The IOPS and storage space saved (zfs compression because psql is meh) is huge. I regularly used hosted dbs but largely for toy DBs in GBs not TBs.

Anyway, it is not hard and controlling upgrades saves so much time. Having a clients db force upgraded when there is no budget for it sucks.

Anyway, I encourage you to learn/try it when you have opportunity

This works great although I should really do step 4 :)