Unlock Productivity with Managed Servers: A Real Time Saver
- Buildservers
- 4 days ago
- 2 min read
Maintaining servers in-house is a time-consuming and error-prone task:
• Ongoing OS and third party software patching
• Agent updates for GitLab, GitHub, Azure DevOps
• Deploying new features including infrastructure tweaks, service rollouts, and migrations
With a managed server from Buildservers, you offload all of this. That means gaining back valuable hours and allowing your team to focus on product delivery, not infrastructure upkeep.
Real-World Time and FTE Savings with Managed Servers
A 2022 IDC and AWS study discovered that AWS users saw a 47 percent reduction in IT staff time required per EC2 instance—going from 363 to 194 hours annually—resulting in a total per-instance gain of 169 hours per year, or around 0.09 FTE saved for each server Amazon Web Services, Inc.+1Amazon Web Services, Inc.+1.
According to JumpCloud, manual patching can result in backlogs up to 102 days, creating technical debt. With managed servers, patching happens continuously and automatically, erasing such delays Amazon Web Services.
What This Means for Your Team
Task Category | Estimated Hours per Server Annually | FTE Impact for 50 Servers |
Manual patch testing and OS updates | 24 hours (2 per month) | ~1.2 FTE |
Agent configuration and CI/CD updates | 15–30 hours | 0.8–1.6 FTE |
Reactive incident response | Significant (often >50 hours) | >0.5 FTE |
Total estimated burden | ~90+ hours per server | ~3–4 FTE |
With managed hosting, most of these tasks become automated or handled by your provider, freeing your team to focus on important projects rather than recurring maintenance.
The Buildservers Advantage
Buildservers includes:
• Weekly OS and software updates
• CI/CD agent maintenance (GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps)
• Proactive performance and security monitoring
• Automatic rollout of new features and configuration changes
No midnight alarms. No firefighting patch tickets. Just reliable, modern infrastructure.
The Takeaway
A 35 percent reduction in server management effort returns meaningful time to your team
Manual patching costs time, and time is a limited resource that is then not spent on
A 47 percent reduction in staff hours per server (~169 hours saved annually) is possible with automation
Buildservers Means:
• More time for innovation and delivering features
• Less time spent chasing patches or troubleshooting agents
• Measurable FTE savings through automation
• Stronger security posture and compliance readiness
With Buildservers, you are not just renting compute, you are reclaiming engineering time, reducing maintenance overhead, and future-proofing your CI/CD infrastructure.
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