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I must have been living under a rock but I don't fully understand the appeal of these types of services if I have to run my own server anyway. What I'm thinkin

by air7 5y ago

I must have been living under a rock but I don't fully understand the appeal of these types of services if I have to run my own server anyway. What I'm thinking is that it only saves me the initial setup of a web server and a git hook and perhaps a DB (which is one tutorial away for anyone with basic technical skills) after which deployment would just mean a git push. What am I missing?

tamersalama 5y ago
It's the difference between a managed service (getting the 3:00AM phonecall) vs doing it all yourself.
appliku 5y ago
In a nutshell it is delegating all this manual work to a service. I was happy with manual deployments for a while too, until i got fed up with this activity. It is just a question of quality of life, automation. Also, yes - there are tutorials, but what if you are not willing to spend time learning it even if you have tutorial? Most of developers have a very high pain tolerance for manual tasks and search for yet another tutorial how to do X by themselves instead of delegating a task to some app or service. Not everyone is like that.