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by pabs3 454 days ago
I think no-one wants to self-host, so you will end up having to make a service offering hosting for the open source projects you create, so you end up the same SaaS situation as before, but the code is open source. Great situation, but still not moving away from SaaS to self-hosted.
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atmanactive 454 days ago
Why not?
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pabs3 452 days ago
You have to deal with a lot more complexity; contracts, cables, network, power, cooling, hardware purchases/failures, disk failures, RAID, routing, BGP, operating systems, databases etc. With the cloud you just outsource that to Amazon and they charge you for it.
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atmanactive 452 days ago
That's ok for a rapid start. Later on, each and every company reaches a point where they are looking for a way to self-host. AWS bills tend to swell out of control.
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