Comment by trouve_search
19 hours ago
Why would ai advancement make self hosting painful? Apart from increased cost of hardware (which you implicitly would pay for in PaaS as well anyways).
If anything, AI makes running linux boxes much easier than 4 years ago; it's now faster and the learning cliff is gone to get the correct CLI commands and digging into system logs.
I had this exact thought yesterday. Shouldn't AI obliterate PaaS platforms like this one since it's super easy to build a bespoke CI/CD process now? Since it's bespoke, you can lock it down as much as you want. Attackers don't even know it's there. It's time to go back to `deploy.sh` and a VPS.
platforms are better placed to guard against attackers
Certainly. They are also larger targets.
to me, this is a variant of security by obscurity and will not fare well in the LLM age
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if you're still doing that manually in 2026 you probably should not be self hosting anything of consequence or commercial liability
What's "that"? Running your own hardware, using a CLI to manage servers, or touching anything below your application layer?
obviously asking claude for commands to dig through logs? duh