We’re a small business and IT stress is starting to pile up. Access issues, updates, security worries, stuff breaking at the worst times. Lately, I keep seeing more and more businesses talk about switching from in-house IT to outsourcing, which got me thinking. We’re considering moving to an MSP mainly to cut down on stress and distractions. For anyone who’s done it, did it actually help? Or did it just swap one set of problems for another?
Did outsourcing IT actually reduce stress for your team?
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Outsourcing to cost based / commodity IT is fine. But most of the IT landscape is value based, or at least pushing you very hard in that direction. 😉
That’s why the biggest companies are IT companies at heart. Including businesses like New York pizza.
So yeah, never outsource IT which puts you at risk of taken hostage by vendor lockin. Buy commodity hardware and services, insource everything else
One thing that helped was knowing someone else was watching things after hours. Even if nothing breaks, just knowing someone’s on it is huge.