Deploy-your-own-SaaS: “only yours” cloud services for everyday needs

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Dec 08, 2019, 3:39 PM UTC

NightlyDev wrote: post #50

dangus wrote: post #34

It's a nice list of really useful services. However, it should also be pointed out that it's also a deploy-your-own-unpaid-system-administrator-job. A lot of the value in SaaS products is the service provided of someone else maintaining it. The maintenance and security patching for running all this stuff, especially on the open Internet, that would quickly become a part time job. So, I'd say that for most people with…

Why should people not run their own email server? It's not like email is moving fast, so it's mostly set and forget. Automatic security updates are a thing, so it really is a non-issue. There sure are things that require quite a bit of maintenance, but personal e-mail servers is definitely in the other end of that spectrum.

Post by pas » Mon, Dec 09, 2019, 11:43 PM UTC

organsnyder wrote: post #19

pas wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be great to label the multitenancy-capable ones, so hackers/geeks/enthusiasts/IT-persons could provide these things to their friends and family. Or is that too much responsibility/power?

Seems like that negates most of the benefits of self-hosted: you're dependent on an internet connection (now likely two residential-class connections instead of one), it can go away without notice, you don't have absolute control over what happens to your data... If I had to choose between traditional cloud services and a friend providing best-effort service, I'm going to go with the former.