alt Hacker NewsIn my experience, the people willing to pay the most to not host it themselves are often the big companies that are long past VC money.
They'll gladly pay someone to do it and have a big team of engineers and planners to support the outsourcing.
Efficiency isn't what bigco inc is about.
BigCos have seen teams come and go, whole departments slaughtered by reorgs. They have seen weird policy changes, political battles, personal beefs and bad managers that trigger waves of attrition.
They know that even if you have the capacity to run something internally today, that is a delicate state of affairs that could easily change tomorrow.