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> Because I am not stupid to pay monthly fees instead of single upfront licenses. You also have to think about the cost of hosting, maintaining, monitoring, et
by treeder 15y ago
> Because I am not stupid to pay monthly fees instead of single upfront licenses.
You also have to think about the cost of hosting, maintaining, monitoring, etc. Usually a service fee by a provider is much smaller than the cost of doing all this yourself. Of course there is some inflection point where it may be cheaper to do it yourself. And during development and while you're still small, most service providers offer a generous free plan.
> Because my desktop screams while my net connection is so so.
Can't argue with that one.
> Because a native UI kicks the sh*t out of any web interface, in looks, perfomance and integration.
Totally agree. Like I said in the post, I still write my code locally.
> Because I am paranoid and I like my data in MY local net.
Are you paranoid about your development data?
> Because I do not mind a bunch of (easily scriptable) installs.
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> I short because the technical problems I am trying to solve go way beyond a trivial LAMP app...
I would argue that this is a good reason to you use services since they will deal with all the hard stuff of running these non-trivial services. The more complicated your application, the more value you'll get out of using services.
- quanticle 15y ago>You also have to think about the cost of hosting, maintaining, monitoring, etc. Well, for a development environment, the costs of all that should be zero, in terms of dollars. In terms of time, you'll have to spend some time maintaining your development environment, whether you have it in the cloud or locally. Adding a monetary cost to that just seems foolish. Remember, we're not talking about deploying to the cloud. We're talking about developing on the cloud. Spending real money, in addition to my time for a project that I'm going to open source or possibly abandon is foolish.