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I'm glad you did. One of the things that scare me the most about the current state of the Internet, it's how centralized it's everything in the "cloud" with a l

by javchz 5y ago

I'm glad you did. One of the things that scare me the most about the current state of the Internet, it's how centralized it's everything in the "cloud" with a lot of the Internet infrastructure depending on like 5 providers. Self hosting it's dirty, time consuming, expensive, risky, but it's predictable. The problem with XaaS it's how little control we have. Not only the rules of pricing can change any day, but if you're already dependable on the service, they could easily shut down that service if it's not profitable enough, and with some luck you will only be able to migrate in a few months.

sdoering 5y ago
In the end I think it will boil down to a question of anti fragility or resiliency VS. efficiency. And there is actually imho no black and white answer. Take a current, very small freelance client of mine. I built them a homepage based on Kirby CMS. Hosted on uberspace.de. On the same shared server there is Matomo being hosted for basic stats. Another client I was involved in went another way. They had their site built by a team of designers with webflow and are using Google Analytics. In both cases the decision makes sense given the conditions and constraints of the respective projects. Personally I would have not recommend to use webflow, but that was not my call to make. For GA I provided a pro/con evaluation and the client decided to go with GA (not my primary recommendation). I still think for his use case at the time a sensible decision.