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Sure, hobby/spare-time projects are one of the cases where it's perfectly reasonable to self-host; often it's fun to learn about the underlying tools by rolling
by theptip 10y ago
Sure, hobby/spare-time projects are one of the cases where it's perfectly reasonable to self-host; often it's fun to learn about the underlying tools by rolling your own db, and doing so can save you some cash (at the expense of your own time).
However, that paradigm is not really applicable to GitLab's OpEx calculation; they have to pay their engineers ;)
- kuschku 10y agoEven for GitLab, when you have 1-2 orders of magnitude price difference, it might be more affordable to hire a DBA. You have to remember GitLab is a 100% remote company, so they can hire DBAs from anywhere on the planet. The cloud obviously makes a lot more sense if you have US electricity prices and Silicon Valley wages.
- theptip 10y agoYes, it might be more affordable. They seem to think it is, as they have chosen to go with self-hosted. My point is simply that your posts above didn't address the complexity of their calculation, as they didn't factor the costs of switching to self-hosted.