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by matus_congrady 655 days ago
Since DHH has been promoting the 'do-it-yourself' approach, many people have fallen for it.

You're asking the right questions that only a few people know they need answers to.

In my opinion, the closest thing to "reclaiming the stack" while still being a PaaS is to use a "deploy to your cloud account" PaaS provider. These services offer the convenience of a PaaS provider, yet allow you to "eject" to using the cloud provider on your own should your use case evolve.

Example services include https://stacktape.com, https://flightcontrol.dev, and https://www.withcoherence.com.

I'm also working on a PaaS comparison site at https://paascout.io.

Disclosure: I am a founder of Stacktape.