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Why are more and more people I know choosing self-hosting over SaaS?
aaPanel_team
Member, Host Rep
in General
Lately, I've noticed more and more people I know replacing some of their subscription services with self-hosted apps.
What I don't get is that while it can save you some money, it also creates a lot of extra hassle. You have to handle your own data backups, and if the system goes down, you have to fix it and get it back up and running.
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It's fun, and the feeling of self-control.
We don't make profit anyway, so why to pay subscriptions?
Just self-host. If it goes, it goes. We just learn.
Yeah, they've mentioned that sense of ownership to me too. It only really feels like it's yours when you host it yourself.
The learning journey is also the fun part. How to get this shit going, how it work behind the wheel.
As they say, learning comes at a cost too, haha.
Some people just like being in control of everything themselves.
Usually due to privacy and security reasons.
That’s true. There are also some people who simply don’t want to deal with all that hassle.
Who said SaaS would save your data backups? They get paid to get blamed, similar to the consulting industry.
I have a server , why not to self host
Because it adds layer of complexity, especially when it's not compatible.
Many factors why this is happening. The censorship and even the involvement with global politics by bigtec, doesn't provide their clients the needed data trust. As trust is a requirement when sharing data with the saas provider.
Also its surely easier to run saas because of generative AI. Its like free consulting, before ai, building saas you needed many IT experts. The cheap cloud also helps a lot. Here at LET you can have a 10$ dollar per year vps! Building a frontend and backend with end to end monitoring is now done within a few hours apposed to many months of expensive IT development and hardware selection/installation/configuration work.
This period is very similar like the introduction of personal computing and commoditized server computing as it removed the need for expensive IBM/HP/CRAY hardware and consultants.
so I won't get ransomed over some 5Tb corn
As hardware performance demands grow, I am shifting from self-hosting to a local setup on two mini PC at home. Only a small vps serve as a web server if I must expose it to the public.