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I feel like this is the first chapter of a story whose ending is probably happy, but whose plot twist is "and then the on-prem server crashed and it took a week
by akerl_ 8y ago
I feel like this is the first chapter of a story whose ending is probably happy, but whose plot twist is "and then the on-prem server crashed and it took a week to figure out how to fix it".
Self-hosting vs 3rd party hosting has a ton of tradeoffs, but systems can fall over no matter who's hosting them.
- londons_explore 8y ago"and then the service we were using got 'sunsetted' and we spent weeks migrating to a new incompatible provider". With hard drive failure rates of 1.6% per year, and all other bits of computer hardware being very reliable, I would guess that an unmaintained self hosted solution will have a longer 'time to failure' than a service provider. The main benefit of a hosted service IMO is less setup time and a support team to help you when they inevitably 'retire' the 'old' api.
- r_singh 8y agoThis would definitely be true if we didn't have experience with self hosting services that are critical to the businesses of our customers. Luckily for us, we do have experience with figuring out servers and are usually required to fix crashes within minutes as the unit measured rather than days.