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Indeed. Unless there's a promise of migration support once funs inevitably run out or some sort of lifetime fixed price/discount, such that the nonprofits or wh
by tetrep 11y ago
Indeed. Unless there's a promise of migration support once funs inevitably run out or some sort of lifetime fixed price/discount, such that the nonprofits or whatever can make an informed decision about the real cost of their infrastructure once it's no longer free, this is nothing but a terrible trap.
I'd hate to see organizations suckered into this only to find that it has unsustainable costs once the freebies dry up and whatever pains come from attempting to migrate to some other platform/service and/or back onto local servers.
- bithive123 11y agoSmart organizations won't adopt even free services without a contract of some kind.
- jmspring 11y agoOne can certainly design one's apps in such a way where the cloud provider doesn't necessarily matter -- docker containers running on VMs, for instance. If you use a bunch of things like SQL Server, Document DB, etc. that is certainly much harder to migrate than PostgreSQL running on a VM.
- NetStrikeForce 11y agoVery good point. You could leverage Docker and an overlay networking solution like ours[1] to abstract yourself from the provider APIs and even the network itself. [1] https://wormhole.network https://wormhole.network