In my original post, I've outlined our monetization strategy at a high level. And cloud hosting is certainly an aspect of our approach. It's true that some wil

In my original post, I've outlined our monetization strategy at a high level. And cloud hosting is certainly an aspect of our approach. It's true that some will self-host Payload, and that's awesome. But look at NextJS - you can self-host NextJS as well, but most people go to Vercel. Hosting a CMS is quite a bit more complicated than a static site or a set of serverless functions, because you need to have a database and permanent file storage as well. Payload will provide all of that out of the box with a one-click Git integration. Our users thus far have been telling us that they struggle with cobbling together vendors and wish that this was easier, so we're building Payload Cloud as a result. One other aspect of Payload Cloud is that even though we -provision- the infrastructure for you, you'll always have access to it. You'll be able to connect to your DB, back it up, export it, etc. This is all in the works now!