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To give you some perspective, a startup I worked for began with a self-hosted web analytics option. In fact, most of the systems we had were all homegrown and
by tixocloud 10y ago
To give you some perspective, a startup I worked for began with a self-hosted web analytics option.
In fact, most of the systems we had were all homegrown and while initially it was a great idea - the maintenance part of it took a lot of time away from optimizing on generating revenue.
We spent a lot of time trying to figure out the structure of our self-hosted web analytics platform, how it tracks data, how it stores data, etc. The majority of our company were engineers but we still wasted a lot of time fiddling with the self-hosted analytics.
There will likely be a subset of customers who would be interested in self-hosted but I'm willing to bet that they are more likely to be companies more engineering-oriented.
- mfrye0 10y agoGood feedback. Yeah I was thinking the same thing - that companies who are self hosting are more likely to be engineering-oriented. Otherwise like you said it's just too much of a pain to handle it yourself. May I ask, why did you self-host vs use an external service? To save money, for greater security and privacy?
- tixocloud 10y agoI believe we self-hosted because of privacy worries and the engineering culture (or myth that we can and should build everything). Ultimately though, the business demanded to switch to something more robust and we went with Omniture. I do believe that self-hosted is an option if it's easy to maintain and it also delivers on business features like reporting and data exploration.
- mfrye0 10y agoYeah I hear you. I run into the same issue - why pay if you can build it yourself. Thanks for the insight.