Comment by xnx
2 years ago
Is there any equivalent for apps where the code is open source and the data is totally under your control but in the cloud? I'd love something that's as easy to install as an Android app, but ran on a server someone else maintains. This is certainly possible now with enough effort, but there doesn't seem to be anything nearly as standard and easy as PHP on a shared host used to be.
"unhosted web apps" is a series of articles that explore some avenues to this: https://unhosted.org/
Thanks! So many good articles, great ideas there!
Well running something "in the cloud" can be arbitrarily complicated, so that's a kinda undefined question.
The simplest equivalent is just regular apps that save data to somewhere that's backed up.
I work with an enterprise that takes this approach, albeit with on-prem warm & cold data.
It seems to make a lot of sense for them, which is probably why cloud providers discourage it.
Data is the important part. Cloud compute can be swapped.