Eh, typical convenience versus control trade-off. IMHO, the time needed to build and deploy your own thing using open-source and open protocols is well spent w

Eh, typical convenience versus control trade-off. IMHO, the time needed to build and deploy your own thing using open-source and open protocols is well spent when compared to being at the mercy of BigPaasCorp when it comes to stuff like this. A VM running nginx, an app in your language of choice, and postgres isn't that hard to setup -- and the costs and scaling of such is well understood.