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its a little bit difficult to understand what you said but if what i understand "why use cloud based solutions instead of just hosting it yourself?" is what you meant then: its easier and technically cheaper, if you count how many hours deployment and management of these services would take, it would be a substantial amount (you often do not count the time you use as valuable) theo on the other hand encourages using simple cloud services where it only takes a couple minutes to deploy and doesnt take anything at all to manage now about the actual price: using the example of planetscale and mysql, its much cheaper than hosting by yourself as long as your app isnt ginormous, most things can fit into the free tier the cheapest instance basically everywhere costs around 5$, so even comparing actual costs its free vs. 5$ (and those instances are usually very tiny and cant do as much as the free tier can) go to PS pls, forgot to add services like planetscale get their money from companies that spend a couple thousand $ a month on a db and even then its cheaper to use planetscale than to set it up on your own (check out theos video about "the line of prime") tldr: its stupid to assume that you are going to hit big instantly, so instead of worrying about the future, get the mvp out and make the stuff your users want PS: even if you dont account for instances and think about hosting locally, like you said, its still not that good of a solution, especially for most people, generally more and more households do not own a public ip, meaning it is difficult to host anything (you need to use a tunneling service or smthn), on top of that hosting locally comes with a lot of problems like for example outages (due to power or loss of internet connection) or even simple crashes, its also not realistic for people to go out and buy a home server, whos power also takes more than a cloud service, the thing with power is also relevant with leaving your pc overnight

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•Created by lukas on 10/23/2023 in #questions

vercel integration axiom logs split by new line

bump still not solved :(((

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TTCTheo's Typesafe Cult

•Created by lukas on 10/23/2023 in #questions

vercel integration axiom logs split by new line

bump pls i need help

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TTCTheo's Typesafe Cult