It doesnt make any sense to you that I would like to avoid a potential 60K bill because of a configuration error? If youre not working at faang your employer likely cares too. Especially if its your own business you would care. You really can't think of _one_ case where self hosting makes any sense?

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antonvs 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> It doesnt make any sense to you that I would like to avoid a potential 60K bill because of a configuration error?

This is such an imaginary problem. The examples like this you hear about are inevitably the outliers who didn't pay any attention to this issue until they were forced to.

For most services, it's incredibly easy to constrain your costs anyway. You do have to pay attention to the pricing model of the services you use, though - if a DDOS is going to generate a big cost for you, you probably made a bad choice somewhere.

> You really can't think of _one_ case where self hosting makes any sense?

Only if it's something you're interested in doing, or if you're so big you can hire a team to deal with that. Otherwise, why would you waste time on it?

	▲	rikafurude21 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Thinking about "constraining cost" is the last thing I want to do. I pay a fixed 200 dollars a month for a dedicated server and spend my time solving problems using code. The hardware I rent is probably overkill for my business and would be more than enough for a ton of businesses' cloud needs. If youre paying per GB of traffic, or disk space, or RAM, you're getting scammed. Hyperscalers are not the right solution for most people. Developers are scared of handling servers, which is why you're paying that premium for a hyperscaler solution. I SSH into my server and start/stop services at will, configure it any way i want, copy around anything I want, I serve TBs a week, and my bill doesnt change. You would appreciate that freedom if you had the will to learn something you didnt know before. Trust me its easier than ever with Ai!