Originally Posted by TheDoc

Well when I had my own backend, twice now. With the first, I had 6 coders and 2 admins. Let's just say the average pay was $50k a year, that's $400k a year or $33k a month.

Reduce that to nats at $150-$600 a month and it has no way of catching up. I have no idea what TMM charges today for NATS, but if it's $20k that's still cheaper than paying staff month after month to maintain affiliate software, correctly. You could go with nats, higher an advanced programmer and a full-time person to manage your nats and save $25,000 a month.

You must have multi-coders on your own software, and all must know the backend equally.. if your main guy quits, you would be screwed otherwise. If he's sick or the wrong group sick, you're boned. When a normal project ends, nobody has to learn it over again. NATS has advantages...

Processors change all the time, for sure when you have a group of them to deal with. They require someone to continually monitor them for post issues, failures, and other various problems and changes - most of which you are never notified about and must discover yourself.