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Scale? Cheaper? Self-hosting a single server in San Francisco is cheaper than AWS too. AWS sells convenience and baked-in knowledge.

• ethbro 7y ago
  Self-hosting is cheaper at both ends of scale. Enterprise clouds are cheaper if you're in the middle and/or quickly changing scale.
  • sam1r 7y ago
    IMO, I think you're undermining the multiple years of programming/sys-admin experience it would require to self-host + scale on your own. It's much more expensive when experience is minimized, as a function of time. Unless you've done it before, of course.
    • jblow 7y ago
      Why have we made our systems so complicated that it takes years of experience to run software on a computer?
      • ethbro 7y ago
        The consequence of abstraction is underlying complexity. And we've added a lot of abstraction.
    • delfinom 7y ago
      OpenStack. Quite a few large companies use it.