> It's simple, you increase your attack surface, and the effort and expertise needed to mitigate that.

Sure, but opening up one port is a much smaller surface than exposing yourself to a whole cloud hosting company.

Ah… I really could not disagree more with that statement. I know we don’t want to trust BigCorp and whatnot, but a single exposed port and an incomplete understanding of what you’re doing is really all it takes to be compromised.

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		Even if you understand what you are doing, you are still exposed to every single security bug in all of the services you host. Most of these self hosted tools have not been through 1% of the security testing big tech services have.