[burfog]

The big companies self-host for legal reasons. It is easier to put up a legal fight with self-hosting. With other hosting, your data can be silently grabbed. You won't even know your data has been compromised.

It's also just cheaper and more reliable at that scale.

[diminoten]

No they don't, every major cloud provider can meet any legal requirement you've got.

This comment was true 15 years ago. It's now so outdated that you're flagging yourself as one of those basement dwellers I wrote about above...