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VPSes are a commodity: if your provider turns out to be crap or puts up prices, you can just switch to another provider. Services like Firebase are not; switchi
by makomk 10y ago
VPSes are a commodity: if your provider turns out to be crap or puts up prices, you can just switch to another provider. Services like Firebase are not; switching requires rewriting your application. This makes them more attractive for the company selling them but a bigger risk for their customers.
- bikamonki 10y agoGive it a couple of years and BAAS will be a commodity...
- nameless912 10y agoIn an ideal world, VPSes are a commodity. But, as someone who's currently trying to evaluate switching part of our backend from OpenStack and DigitalOcean to AWS, it's not anywhere near as simple as it could be. Everyone is still platform locked to a greater or lesser degree, and those platform-specific tweaks and quirks oftentimes don't come up til you actually start trying to run a transition.