[nixosbestos]

I used to handwave cloud portability. Turns out when you're shipping things and need extra services and you have deadlines, you build against the platform. I think the GP comment was probably expressing wariness of the free cloudflare tier that entices you to build against their APIs and their product shape in a way that inevitably locks you in. Sure, you could migrate, but that's expensive.

[glhaynes]

Yeah, good point. For a little hobbyist site of no importance, I'm not too worried about vendor lock-in, but that calculus changes as it gets more important.

[nixosbestos]

That's the catch though. By time you're scaling, there's tension between roadway and revenue and headcount and it's the worst worst possible time to need to reachitect.