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I believe the point was protecting against risk of 3rd party falling over. If you self host that reduces the risk. At least you have visibility into the falling

• Over2Chars 2y ago
  It reduces the risk only if your self-hosted solution also doesn't fall over. It's like saying "I can reduce the risk of my rental car failure by owning my own car", assuming your own car you keep undriven in your garage, doesn't have a dead battery, no gas, flat tires, and proves to be unusable for hauling. The "cloud" was touted as the fix for all that nuisance in self-hosting. Magically Jeff's bit barn would work to five 9s of uptime, and you could sit back and write your code, unshackled to infra. Until Jeff's bit barn went tits up. I say the "cloud" is just another guys data center behind an API. You wanna cloud experience? Put an API in front of your own servers and burn a $100 bill.