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What's being suggested is still a significant increase in spend for infrastructure. Self-hosting is not free. You lose economies of scale on the services. You n
by mirashii 10y ago
What's being suggested is still a significant increase in spend for infrastructure. Self-hosting is not free. You lose economies of scale on the services. You need to hire an inhouse IT and/or infrastructure/ops team to support them. Your probability of downtime increases significantly, which comes with a cost. It's the same tradeoff you're talking about, with the only difference being the scale of cost.
- problems 10y agoYou need to have one person who can run apt-get upgrade a few times. Most of the good development and operations people are capable of it in my experience at least. It requires at most a few days upfront and a couple hours of monthly work to keep things up to date. It's not remotely comparable to re-developing the whole system. If your developers can maintain their own machines, they can probably handle this.