> I expect better of the community here. All it takes is a chance to take a cheap shot at one of the “big boys” and then all of a sudden the weasels come scampe

> I expect better of the community here. All it takes is a chance to take a cheap shot at one of the “big boys” and then all of a sudden the weasels come scampering out of the wood work. Engineers like to build stuff. Historically, running your own infrastructure and configuring servers from the ground up were the building blocks of the internet. These new cloud services took away those building blocks and they had the nerve to charge for it. In the real world, there are more interesting problems to solve than setting up and maintaining your own servers so it isn't really a complaint. It's actually more fun to get the hosting stuff out of the way and focus on the problem at hand. HN comments are basically notorious for exaggerating the downsides of hosted services while overplaying the ease and benefits of DIY. A lot of the comments here are similar to the famous Dropbox comment thread where users couldn't understand why anyone would want to use Dropbox when they could simply set up a complicated self-hosted rsync contraption to sync their own files.