Comment by ryandvm
2 months ago
Indeed. AWS too.
I feel like the cloud hosting companies have lost the plot. "They can provide better uptime than us" is the entire rationale that a lot of small companies have when choosing to run everything in the cloud.
If they cost more AND they're less reliable, what exactly is the reason to not self host?
> If they cost more AND they're less reliable, what exactly is the reason to not self host?
Shifting liability. You're paying someone else for it to be their problem, and if everyone does it, no one will take flak for continuing to do so. What is the average tenure of a CIO or decision maker electing to move to or remain at a cloud provider? This is why you get picked to talk on stage at cloud provider conferences.
(have been in the meetings where these decisions are made)
Plus, when you self-host, you can likely fix the issue yourself in a couple of hours max, instead of waiting indefinitely for a fix or support that might never come.
These global cloud outages aren’t the real issue; they affect everyone and get fixed.
What is killer is when there is a KNOWN issue that affects YOU but basically only you so why bother fixing it!
I mean, I still prefer to have the ability to fix it myself, because I know I can probably do it in 1h max. I know this doesn't apply to most people, especially those outside of HN though.
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Capex vs Opex and scale-out.
For a start-up it's much easier to just pay the Cloud tax than it is to hire people with the appropriate skill sets to manage hardware or to front the cost.
Larger companies on the other hand? Yeah, I don't see the reason to not self host.