There’s a lot of marketing associated with the cloud. It is not that cheap. There are definitely economies of scale with the cloud, but when you see how much pr

There’s a lot of marketing associated with the cloud. It is not that cheap. There are definitely economies of scale with the cloud, but when you see how much profit the big boys make, rest assured, not much of the cost savings are being passed down to you. And there is so much vendor lock-in, I’d much rather just start from scratch and do everything myself. They say the point of the cloud is easy deployment but honestly that only works for hobby projects — anything serious, and you will be tweaking everything quite a bit so there isn’t much benefit of these ready made solutions as you will eventually hit a roadblock that they can’t overcome easily and you will either spend a lot of time making your cloud solution work or abandon it for something else. Definitely a huge risk of losing control, the web and everything is becoming more closed. Agree with you 100% that we need to support open movements