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That's a lot of stuff to worry about and get right vs. just paying $XX a month for someone else to deal with it.
by marcellus23 5y ago
That's a lot of stuff to worry about and get right vs. just paying $XX a month for someone else to deal with it.
- KronisLV 5y agoYou know, that's a fair point. On one hand, feeding a YAML file into a container orchestration solution takes care of some of those concerns, as does enabling VPS backups and using something like KeePass to generate passwords (which can also be used for everything else, should you so desire). On the other hand, not everyone necessarily knows how to do that, or wants to do that. To that, i'll indeed concede. It's just that claiming that these things are too hard for the average technically inclined person to do (regardless of whether they have 2 or 10 years of experience) leads to a mindset in which people rely on SaaSS for everything and never even learn how to run their own software, thus either paying too much for it (relative to the worth it provides them with), or just locking themselves into a particular vendor. Lastly, by hosting your own software, you are a smaller target than the larger and more centralized SaaS platforms. If a large SaaS gets hacked, although unlikely, it will affect a large amount of people. If your own instance gets hacked, even if more likely (less visible to hackers, almost no gain to be had for hacking John Doe's Nextcloud instance, yet probably also easier to do), it will only affect the few people using it.