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Is it really so much cheaper to pay for "hosted" apps rather than just plumbing your own on VPS/metal?

• tormeh 11mo ago
  It's far cheaper to do it yourself, but the entire point is that you outsource the management of the service. Lots of people don't want to deal with database failovers, or - god forbid - deal with Kubernetes control plane issues.
• pyrale 11mo ago
  On the opposite, it is more expensive, and any large enough company should probably at least consider renting metal rather than services. For a small org, though, it lets you avoid a lot of infrastructure/ops work.