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Be warned, most of the comments I’ve heard on HN are that self hosting options are disproportionately expensive to support. Charge accordingly
by milesvp 3y ago
Be warned, most of the comments I’ve heard on HN are that self hosting options are disproportionately expensive to support. Charge accordingly
- scubakid 3y agoLuckily the current self-hosted version has not been much of a burden to support so far. But I do wonder if/how that might change with an alternate licensing model. In the examples you've heard about, do you recall where the most significant support costs oftened stem from?
- milesvp 3y agoI think it was dealing with the myriad different environments they could be deployed in. I’ve done a lot of sysadmin work, and I can tell you that a lot of companies just don’t have a repeatable environment. That said, my suspicion is these days, with a good container type solution, if you maintain that, and support just what’s inside that boundary, that can go a long way to mitigate calls. Of course, I love containers until they break, especially when they break because of some implied dependency changes.
- scubakid 3y agoAh, makes sense. This one is containerized and orchestrated with Docker Compose. At this point, I can barely imagine trying to create and maintain a cross-platform self-hostable product the old school way.