I say this only partially in jest but, I hope when presented with such choices I always pick the one that allows me the most hours of peaceful sleep at night. This usually gets me half way there during decision making.
Honestly ops is about making/saving money for the company. Like an HR employee can choose the right thing, an ops engineer can also choose "sleeplessness avoidance", but it doesn't always work out that way.
That's true, but "sleeplessness avoidance" saves lots more money for small-scale companies. Downtime and man-hours are much more expensive than getting more reliable hosting, unless you're a very large company.
