>Play the game of cat-and-mouse with an entire Internet's worth of bad actors trying to break your server? "No thanks," say most actual users. I was listening

>Play the game of cat-and-mouse with an entire Internet's worth of bad actors trying to break your server? "No thanks," say most actual users. I was listening to a podcast yesterday, and one of the hosts expressed this similar feeling, except he came from the opposite end of the spectrum—someone who has been deploying, maintaining, and working on Internet infrastructure for a while. Dealing with these headaches for an extended amount of time will probably nudge you to favour centralisation. He argued in favour of moving the entire tech stack to the cloud and paying a fee, instead of deploying and maintaining anything on-premises, in no small part because of the cat-and-mouse game you describe. Paraphrasing, "I'm just paying for a service, if something breaks in the cloud it's not my problem to fix."