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why should a self-hosted server limit notifications by number of users? its not like the dev team is doing any hosting for notifications that they need to pay f
by 2Gkashmiri 2y ago
why should a self-hosted server limit notifications by number of users? its not like the dev team is doing any hosting for notifications that they need to pay for bandwidth and stuff?
i do understand the need for "charging people somehow", same as how some say their product is open source but you still have to pay per user even when its hosted on your own machines, why bother then? its not like i have "security" concerns from E2EE of facebook.
when we are talking "self hosting" then that would mean i get to self-manage but also i am not restricted by features otherwise whats the point?
look at zulip for example.
their cloud hosted version is plus version for $10/user. same for self-hosted business version at $6.67/user. So at the cost of self hosting and management and storage and administration i am only getting a discount of $3.33? again, why bother at this point?
- dijit 2y agoActually since push notifications for an app are centralised: there is a hosting cost for the app maintainer. There was a blog article from Zulip explaining this. https://blog.zulip.com/2023/12/19/self-hosting-without-commercial-support/ https://blog.zulip.com/2023/12/19/self-hosting-without-comme... Which is better backed by this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38660799 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38660799
- dijit 2y agoI found the docs: https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/7.2/production/mobile-push-notifications.html#why-this-is-necessary https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/7.2/production/mobile-push-n...
- meiraleal 2y agoWait. You want a discount to have access to the source code? So you are ok with paying a premium to NOT have access to it?
- cvwright 2y agoThese prices make sense when you consider that the bulk of the cost of providing Zulip to you is not the cost of the compute and storage and bandwidth - those are fairly minimal. It’s the cost of the developers who fix bugs and keep the product moving forward. Those cost a lot more, and you need them regardless of where your instance is hosted.