From experience (because I used to do this), it’s a lot less time than a self-hosted solution, once you’re factoring in the multiple services that need to be maintained.

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pinkgolem a day ago | parent [-]

As someone who has done both.. i disagree, i find self hosting to a degree much easier and much less complex

Local reproducibility is easier, and performance is often much better

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scott_w a day ago | parent [-]

It depends entirely on your use case. If all you need is a DB and Python/PHP/Node server behind Nginx then you can get away with that for a long time. Once you throw in a task runner, emails, queue systems, blob storage, user-uploaded content, etc. you can start running beyond your own ability or time to fix the inevitable problems.

As I pointed out above, you may be better served mixing and matching so you spend your time on the critical aspects but offload those other tasks to someone else.

Of course, I’m not sitting at your computer so I can’t tell you what’s right for you.

	▲	pinkgolem a day ago \| parent [-]
		I mean, fair, we are ofc offloading some of that.. email being one of those, LLM`s being another thing. Task runner/que at least for us postgres works for both cases. We also self host an s3 storage and allow useruploaded content in within strict borders.