Re:Ditching PaaS: Why I Went Back to Self-Hosting
by tstrimple on Thursday January 18, 2024 @09:16PM
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> The thing about PaaS is you really have to do your research.
I find this true of pretty much all modern cloud development. So many people want to just pretend it’s another VPS alternative and are shocked that their misuse leads to high monthly bills. You need different patterns to take advantage of the strengths of PaaS cloud services and to avoid the weaknesses and gotchas. I PaaS all of the things that I can and my maintenance and support efforts have never been lower. My services scale to zero and I only pay for actual utilization.
If you’re standing up a lot of VMs in the cloud and pretending it’s just another data center of course you’re going to have a bad time and waste money.
I find this true of pretty much all modern cloud development. So many people want to just pretend it’s another VPS alternative and are shocked that their misuse leads to high monthly bills. You need different patterns to take advantage of the strengths of PaaS cloud services and to avoid the weaknesses and gotchas. I PaaS all of the things that I can and my maintenance and support efforts have never been lower. My services scale to zero and I only pay for actual utilization.
If you’re standing up a lot of VMs in the cloud and pretending it’s just another data center of course you’re going to have a bad time and waste money.