Hosted v. self-hosted Billing

adly

Curious, how do people feel about hosted vs. self-hosted billing? Self-hosted has the obvious benefit of controlling data, but beyond this (and potential cost concerns) it doesn't seem that advantageous.

datanoise

You care about your customers? You should care about their privacy. Self hosted is the way to go. Using good (secure) software.

For summer-hosting it probably doesn't matters. But summer is over.

armandorg

@datanoise said:
You care about your customers? You should care about their privacy. Self hosted is the way to go. Using good (secure) software.

For summer-hosting it probably doesn't matters. But summer is over.

There will always be another summer, best be prepare

hostdare

datanoise said: But summer is over.

winter is coming

jh

Most hosting companies have servers and know how to install, configure and update stuff. For them the tradeoff is different to other companies - there's no value in someone else hosting and looking after their stuff because it's what they do all day.

Couple this with low margins, especially in low end hosting and the fact that hosting billing systems need to connect to a lot of other sensitive systems.