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Re:Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a... by forty on Saturday January 01, 2022 @04:19AM (#29756885)
Of course there are use cases where not using cloud facilities is cheaper, but unless your business is low margin the difference might still be irrelevant and having the managed services available easily can be handy if you ever need them.

There are many use cases where hosting fee is not the right thing to optimize for.

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Re:Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a... by funcDropShadow on Monday January 03, 2022 @08:59AM (#29780797)
The last time I compared hosting prices of AWS with self-hosting. AWS based hosting would have cost us every three month the cost of buying over the top speced server hardware. These numbers are not directly comparable, but they are a large difference to account for colocation and maintenance. And we never managed to get a similar performance of postgres on AWS compared to the self-hosted version we use now. But the main advantage is the simplification you get. It is certainly not easier to use you own hardware, but it is far simpler.
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