Re:Self hosting is important
by littlestymaar on Sunday July 25, 2021 @04:04AM
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> but I think it would be crazy to self host a customer facing app. There's scaling and redundancy that you can take advantage that you could never come close to hosting on your own
We see the ”scaling” argument a lot, but honestly it's overrated for most businesses: for 95%+ percents of the businesses you can run online, the traffic you have can easily be handled by a single cheap machine running a PHP backend, as long as everything is properly set up (caching, using a CDN for media, etc). Modern computers are fast!
Same for redundancy: your business is unlikely to fail because your website is down for 2h every month (heck, this even that much worse than github /s).
Independent developers almost never need to care about scaling and redundancy.
We see the ”scaling” argument a lot, but honestly it's overrated for most businesses: for 95%+ percents of the businesses you can run online, the traffic you have can easily be handled by a single cheap machine running a PHP backend, as long as everything is properly set up (caching, using a CDN for media, etc). Modern computers are fast!
Same for redundancy: your business is unlikely to fail because your website is down for 2h every month (heck, this even that much worse than github /s).
Independent developers almost never need to care about scaling and redundancy.