That's great. Thank you for you comment. Just a few weeks ago I asked [0] why there is no company trying to offer whole packages of open source solutions. There were some comments, but I think this is the closest to what I have in mind.
Personally, I am trying to turn communick into a custom-hosting service focused on messaging/social media platforms. One of the challenges is exactly related to setup things in a way where I can isolate customers in my infra while trying to use economies of scale to keep the costs low.
As a beta product it has of course miles to go but certain things can be listed as must haves if self hosting is to start on the path of wider adoption:
- easy data download/export (things like SFTP that this service offers just doesn’t cut it)
- much easier maintenance of tools - addition/removal etc - if one has to deal with technicalities e.g configuring CPU/RAM it’s DOA for the end user adoption.
- pricing - as of now this service spins up a new pod for every other service which bills separately - for end users that might not scale and might not be easy to use access - definitely more costly.
I have given just one company’s example because I came across it a few days back but it’s a generic comment of course.
Something like where the mail providers are today e.g Fastmail, mailbox etc.
It would be great to have a provider where you open an account and specify how many users will access your tools and within seconds/mins you’re seeing your projected cost per month for your own instances of open source Spotify, open source Netflix, google reader/rss, fastmail, google calendar/contacts, some note taking service, bookmarking service, vpn etc.
That would be useful.