Post by @RamRabbit@lemmy.world

2026-04-28 16:18 UTC

I have also found that self-hosting, even with your own hardware, is significantly cheaper than the premium cloud hosting (AWS, etc). We priced out a VM server at my company and we found we could rebuy the hardware for it every *FIVE* months, just from the cloud hosting costs. And that is if we were decently disciplined about turning VMs on and off every day (which we all knew was a fantasy). That caused us to strike out the premium providers. Leaving us with the non-premium ones (Digital Ocean, etc), co-locating, or in-house hosting.

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@bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-29 11:59

The other reason that companies like to use AWS is for liability. If you don't own the hardware you're not as responsible for the physical security and maintenance for tons of servers distributed around the world. At least that's what my employer likes about it. For personal use or smaller companies, I def don't see the use case of AWS just out of price and complexity.

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@rollerbang@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 16:23

I hear you. Personally I never understood the appeal of costly hosting at AWS and such. It just always seemed so expensive. The only benefit it provided, imho, is when you legitimately need to scale very quickly or if you've got a really huge variance in load. Everything else? My own servers please, and thank you for reading 😁

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@Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-28 20:08

Use a Cronjob to turn the servers on or off. Automate everything you can

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