&gt; Fair enough but do you think a 1-2 man shop can get better reliability than a product like Parse if they are average app developers that don&#x27;t have Ops experience?<p>I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s ever going to be possible unless both people forgo sleep and are willing to drop whatever it is they&#x27;re doing to attend incidents.<p>I&#x27;m really surprised by the number of responses of the form &quot;but I could run that cheaply myself on my own server!&quot; I see to online services.