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> I'm paying thousands of dollars a year for AWS when it seems to me I could just buy a computer and a couple solid state drives, and host locally. What happen
by re-thc 2y ago
> I'm paying thousands of dollars a year for AWS when it seems to me I could just buy a computer and a couple solid state drives, and host locally.
What happens when:
- there's a power outage?
- you trip the cable?
- a hardware failure occurs?
- your local ISP's IP is blocked or banned and you have no control over it?
- you have limited upload / download where you are (depends on country)
- your Internet is out or just fails to Cloudflare
And many more...
- lobito25 2y agoNot to mention meteorites
- jqpabc123 2y agoIn a word --- reliability. Self hosting introduces multiple failure modes making it difficult to achieve redundancy and uptime comparable to purpose built and professionally managed cloud infrastructure. Downtime can be a serious blow to many startups. And the more important the service is, the less tolerance clients/customers have for it. For any sort of *business* service, you probably risk losing more than you stand to gain.