Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by vero2 1035 days ago
A sincere best of luck to you all. At the same time these sentences are unwarranted

> Public cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud made life easier for start-ups and enterprises. But they are closed source, have you rent computers at a huge premium, and lock you in. Ubicloud offers an open alternative, reduces your costs, and returns control of your infrastructure back to you. All without sacrificing the cloud's convenience.

especially when you say:

> Ubicloud is in public alpha. You can provide us your feedback, get help, or ask us to support your network environment in the Community Forum.

while I agree self-hosting at a philosophical level, please note that there are lots of good reasons to use public providers.