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by mr_toad 1671 days ago
> "Any of these nifty services can just turn into a pumpkin at any time"

Which is just as true for on premise servers.

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If something you control, manage and backup goes down, you can fix it.

It won't go away on its own, or like Travis make you dependent on it, get bought out by VCs who milk your dependency for money.

When it goes down, it only impacts your jobs until you solve it, not single-point-of-failues the whole internet and whole programming languages.

Your self-sufficiency also acts to stop all software endevour concentrating in the hands of one monopolistic American company.

Yup - it's a difference of both degree and kind.