Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept
by fauigerzigerk on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @11:30AM
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>and then the service is down for half a day, your data got restored from days old backups (if at all)
It's not unheard of for the same thing to happen with in-house systems.
The difference is that you may have a wider range of options to avoid and respond to any outage if you run things yourself. That seems to be a rather theoretical advantage though. Every time there's a new ransomware attack, it's always those in-house deployments that are hit hardest and take the longest to recover.
I think under optimal conditions self-hosting is superior. But conditions are rarely optimal. As soon as you have to convince non-technical management to invest in non-productive necessities or in contingency planning you're already in a sub-optimal position.
It's not unheard of for the same thing to happen with in-house systems.
The difference is that you may have a wider range of options to avoid and respond to any outage if you run things yourself. That seems to be a rather theoretical advantage though. Every time there's a new ransomware attack, it's always those in-house deployments that are hit hardest and take the longest to recover.
I think under optimal conditions self-hosting is superior. But conditions are rarely optimal. As soon as you have to convince non-technical management to invest in non-productive necessities or in contingency planning you're already in a sub-optimal position.