I've recently mentioned* that I believe the serverless model to be a great fit for self hosting needs. It enables a kind of bring your own account (BYOA?) inst

I've recently mentioned* that I believe the serverless model to be a great fit for self hosting needs. It enables a kind of bring your own account (BYOA?) installation process. Where self-hostable services would be entirely built based on managed services. - Infrastructure as code. The installer takes in any <cloud_vendor> account and provisions + configures the required components - High availability built in - no need to support old or niche hardware - On-demand costs structure. Many self-hosted services don't need to run 24/7 My biggest fear with raspberry pi or VPS is the security. But self-hosting does not mean my-server-hosting. Some amount of vendor lock-in is acceptable and using the same APIs and processes as enterprise users sounds like a win. At least compared to not self-hosting at all. Of course many things are still missing: - self-hosted tools that actually work like this - connection between data center and home. To integrate with smart home/IoT and similar things - a reliable billing model for less technical users. It has to be impossible to rack up huge cloud bills For now I guess it's just not yet mature enough. But I would like to see the serverless mentality finding it's way into self-hosted software communities. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36986980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36986980 An example of what I mean: https://github.com/full-stack-serverless/conference-app-in-a-box https://github.com/full-stack-serverless/conference-app-in-a... I don't see any reason why that shouldn't also work for more typical self-hosted applications