[pancsta]

Self hosting is the only way and actually not a bad idea (also quite popular and on the rise). On top of that, a common folk can use AI for end-user customizations of such open source deployments. The worst case scenario is that email will be like CB radio, to follow on your example…

[ok1984]

Agree! I don’t understand how they convinced so many companies to move to the cloud, making them pay more than actually running physical hardware. If Azure, Google, AWS go down most of the internet will be down which is really the opposite of what the internet is supposed to be! Soon we will not be able to call it the World Wide Web anymore!

Cloud is needed for very specific scenarios such as:

1) You running a global service like instagram, amazon, netflix. 2) Your hardware demands have very high fluctuations.

Apart from that, many software solutions can be easily installed on prem, and as your business grows you can increase the compute power of your infrastructure.