If VPSs had the same marketing and maybe a bit more polished standard tooling I have a feeling it would quickly gain traction and simplify life for most people.

If VPSs had the same marketing and maybe a bit more polished standard tooling I have a feeling it would quickly gain traction and simplify life for most people. As well as prevent vendor lock-in, of course. It’s in the SaaS business model. The incentives, even for fully open source like supabase, is misaligned with self-hosting. Even if they’re super honest and trying to be helpful, their fully managed globally available offering is going to have very different needs than self-hosters. I actually more like the model of having FOSS where the company behind it offers consulting instead, to build, deploy and operate the product for customers who lack the in-house expertise. It’s not perfect, but it helps align the incentives towards simplicity.