• One problem I have with hosting is something we have just gone trough here, and is one of the reasons I just now have time to go trough my emails from SQLServerCentral 😉

    We had outsourced the hosting of our CRM software, when the relationship with that vendor went sour, we had a hard time getting a copy of our data (other issues here, such as the marketing department getting the CRM software and not having a very good contract). For me that would be more of a nightmare than upgrades etc.

    That is of course not so much an issue if you just outsourced your maintenance, but kept servers in house. But, after being maintained by MS for 2-3 years, who on staff would be able to get to the data?