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by mrcwinn
1018 days ago
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Typical of 37Signals: self-importance presented as courage. "IT departments are hungry to run their own IT again." Really, are they now? I can't imagine anything scarier: an organization that is ostensibly shy to spend on Big Tech's cloud bills, somehow also has the bandwidth and resources to support and maintain someone else's software. This is just silly. Is there a way to personalize HN's algorithm to hide marketing ploys? |
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I'm not in IT directly but as someone who mostly does infra / SRE / platform / ops type of stuff I'd much rather run certain types of tools internally.
For example, I'd rather pay $6 a month to self host WireGuard on a low powered server than pay 10-30x that for other SAAS apps in that space. Pop in Debian, lock the server down and turn on nightly unattended-upgrades and it's basically hands free maintenance.
I've had servers run for 8 years in this way where I spent a total of ~3 hours on assorted maintenance for the lifetime of the box.