Has anyone moved from Acumatica hosted to private hosting?

Hi ​@lairdtim 

Yes Some customers from Acumatica to some other private hosted platforms. If any one deleted the DB by mistake then it is difficult to correct it and there is a need for correction which can be resolved by Acumatica, at this time they service will be charge,

You will not get a free 90 days sandbox for upgrades,

We’ve been on premises with bare metal for 5 years and wouldn’t do anything else. Performance being the main reason. Our Acumatica implementer told us we have the fastest Acumatica instance he’s ever used.
With Acumatica what we’ve noticed is that performance per core is more important than number of cores. Upping from a 2.7base clock processor to a 3.6 on the server was a noticeable performance improvement.

Second thing we’ve noticed is the speed of the local computer makes a much bigger difference on performance than most websites. Assuming this is because of inefficient/heavy js usage. The difference between a 1.7Ghz laptop with a poor graphics card vs a Macbook Pro is stunning.

Security is not an issue. Get yourself an SSL cert, use a WAF and you’ll be fine.
We have transaction log backups to Backblaze every 20 minutes, differential backup every night and full backup every week. Entire server is backed up every week as well. Using BDRSuite.

We can spin up from complete server loss to online with a few hours.

You will need to have a competent IT person to configure these things.

We run our production Acumatica servers on Azure reserved instances.  The performance has been mostly good for us.  We have another a web app running on its own server that share the SQL server used by Acumatica, and it occasionally causes slowdowns.  We run our dev server in-house and the performance is decent but we don’t have the high-speed network switching gear that we get with Azure.  Of course, you need to implement good back-up and recovery system if you are controlling the servers.