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Who needs RDS? You can host your own database instance. Who needs VPSes? Just run bare metal. Who needs S3? Host your own files.
by driverdan 5y ago
Who needs RDS? You can host your own database instance. Who needs VPSes? Just run bare metal. Who needs S3? Host your own files.
- neximo64 5y agoWho needs an ISP, just connect ur own Ethernet to the backhaul. Why even buy an ethernet cable when the spec if an open standard, just make it at home.
- ggregoire 5y ago> Who needs S3? Host your own files. You joking but I read this comment way too often on HN.
- slig 5y agoJust host Ceph in a RPi cluster inside your closet.
- chii 5y agoit's because those who say this underestimate the work required to make any of those services robust and scalable at a click of a button. All they see is the high cost vs the imagined simple implementation.
- alfalfasprout 5y agoIf the typical HN reader had their way everyone would roll their own versions of AWS services and rewrite their codebases in Rust.