>You need 1 of the IT people you're paying already to do a couple of hours of allocating a server, running it, and setting up permissions.
We did that at my previous job during covid because we also though maintenance would only be a couple of hours of effort. It didn't work out that easy. It became a full time job so it was scrapped. People underestimate the amount of effort required maintaining on-prem infra across an org to match what cloud hypersacler providers offer.
potentially wrapping their own package or distro rather than using something like ESS Community? Or perhaps they left registration open and had abuse problems?
