I applaud the intention but I doubt this is going to make a difference when it comes to signing or keeping users. If the service keeps growing they will quickl

I applaud the intention but I doubt this is going to make a difference when it comes to signing or keeping users. If the service keeps growing they will quickly realize that latency and availability matters. Uptime would be now a major concern. If something blows up in whatever facility it's used for these servers they will be fucked. No way to shift traffic to another server. And let's not even talk about computing needs. At scale, that matters. Having managed services also matters and helps reduce operational cost (a lot). Having a bare server in someone's garage in Reykjavik is the opposite of scaling. It's literally a recipe to deprive yourself from the technologies that can make you successful and definitely a way to slow down your progress. If SimpleAnalytics' goal is to stay small, then maybe this could make sense, but that for me makes this business pointless and it doesn't sound like the vision the founder has either. Or maybe this is just an MVP until they can have their own on-prem infrastructure with fully encrypted hardware. Idk, maybe the founder's vision go as far as that, and I can't see beyond the downsides of a such a random move.