On: The future is self-hosted

[hamilyon2]

>your infra costs are much lower

Last time I checked TCO was higher unless you are sort of big enterprise or individual who values her time zero.

Do not get me started on capex

[alexlazar97 → hamilyon2]

From my experience, you don't have to value your time at zero to make it make sense. Some software/infra genuinely requires very little to no maintenance.

[8organicbits → alexlazar97]

Any examples? As a software developer by day and parent all other hours, I've shifted away from self-hosting things. Even stuff like a pi-hole; it stopped working once and my wife couldn't get online, so I turned it off instead of debugging it.

[alexlazar97 → 8organicbits]

I self-host Nextcloud, a personal finance app called Expensio + all of my websites (personal and commercial). Maybe about ~8 or so things in total.

I only really spend time on maintaining them when I want to update them which is usually just a git pull and a docker compose command.