I run the mediatech department in an university. My tech requirement for any infrastructure boils down to three basic questions:

  1. How often do I have to touch it during the next ten years?  
  
  2. How many of the times that I have to touch it are because I decided to do so?  
  
  3. How much pain is it to fix and understand if I had my mind erased?  
  

This often works out in favour of dead simple solutions.