Comment by firesteelrain
4 hours ago
You are certainly free to attempt to migrate your workloads to your own or leased data center space in your area then buy your own on prem cloud like Dell Private Cloud and deal with all of the maintenance yourself. I don’t think it would amount to $100k/yr and you would be taking on all the risk.
For most teams selfhosting on 1U is more than enough which would cost about 1200€/year for housing + let's say 1800€/year for hardware acquisition/depreciation (probably more like 300€/year if you can work with second hand hardware) so that's about 3000€/year or 97% reduction.
Of course you may not want to manage the hardware yourself in which case you'd go for a dedicated server from a reputable provider (i.e. not microsoft/google) like OVH's RISE-XL, Hetzner's EX131, Scaleway's Core-9-L (or an equivalent solution from a smaller provider) for about 4000€/year.
Now let's say you add 8k€/year donations to your distro of choice, forge of choice, and other FLOSS projects and 8k€/year for backups. You got the whole thing running sustainably with >99.9% uptime for 20k€/year or 20% of the original bill.
It would be way less and risk would be lower (It is hard to reach one 9 no matter how bad you are at it), and self hosting is not the only option.
Self-hosted is not the only alternative...