I agree with your comments about how Influx handled this shutdown. The several things you might mean by self-hosting have their own pros and cons. The right ch

I agree with your comments about how Influx handled this shutdown. The several things you might mean by self-hosting have their own pros and cons. The right choice is very context-specific, and assuming that it’s always the right choice is wrong. It certainly can be, though. As for ClickHouse, that mention seems like a throwaway comment, unless you are advocating a boycott of even the open source InfluxDB due to its corporate author’s behavior and view ClickHouse as the closest alternative. This incident has nothing to do with the comparison of the open source InfluxDB vs the open source ClickHouse, nor would it impugn the viability of InfluxDB hosted by a more responsible data custodian than Influx the company. And GCP hasn’t done any similar inadequately notified shutdown of service with immediate and irreversible data loss, as far as I know. (Disclosure: I have worked for Google in the past, including GCP, but not in over 8 years. I’m speaking only for myself here. I’ve never worked for Influx ClickHouse.)