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Ditching PaaS: Why I Went Back to Self-Hosting (shubhamjain.co)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In recent times, my opinion about self-hosting has changed. Instead of paying for multiple services, I am now renting a decently sized VPS on Scaleway, and hosting all my projects on them. It’s been three months, and it has been working out great for me.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

PaaS takes away your flexibility: [...] sometimes, you also want to use the compute to run cron jobs, run background jobs, or host a small service. With PaaS, you don’t have the flexibility to do so. [...]

I don't really agree with that. I'm using AWS for that, and for my "small cron jobs" I simply create a lambda for them. Then you can create a CRON rule in Event Bridge and schedule the lambda to start whenever you need