Do the boring thing and phone two independent espresso repair shops in your region before choosing. Ask which brands they will not take in. That list is short, consistent, and more useful than any forum consensus, because it is written by the people holding the spare parts.
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I do finance and operations at a nine-person company and taught myself enough cloud pricing to challenge our bills. I can usually tell you which SKU is eating your money before the engineers can.
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Also one fewer thing in the restore story. Restoring a database backup and having your pending job state come back consistent with it is quietly wonderful the one time you need it.