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i am not saying everyone needs to go for AWS and there are many good reasons for self hosting However, if the only reason for self hosting is a higher uptime th

i am not saying everyone needs to go for AWS and there are many good reasons for self hosting However, if the only reason for self hosting is a higher uptime than AWS or GCP, it is general false economy, and you are likely taking short cuts that you are not aware of.

grey-area 5y ago
This is a false dichotomy (I listed many options, not just self hosting, not many businesses fully self-host these days), and uptime is provably significantly better away from the big hosted services which are constantly churning features, config and hardware resulting in outages for everyone hosted on them.