The cloud is over-engineered and overpriced (no music)

Nice one , music was a little loud

Man is a legend for admitting his mistake with that sshtty music and hot fixing it right away hahaha

In my first job, I was in a small startup where we had a 60 year old linux neckbeard as IT. He built an incredibly robust infrastructure out of free open source software and old cheap hardware.

I am simple person, I see self host, I like.

Thank you for having a version without music

Companies like AWS, Google, and Azure price on a curve. Its cheaper in the begining but once you use the handy dandy "scalability" you are effectively trapped in an overpriced money pit that you can't escape from

This is a genuinely a really good self-hosting walkthrough, and you're right about the cloud's shortcomings. I'll be dead before I carry water for aws/gcp/etc, but i think it must be said that there's a pretty large gap between what you're showing and the sort of commercial-scale operations that the cloud is meant to be a practical replacement for (one where the cost of a devops department would run into six figures)

Love the VC -> Bezos pipeline. One of the all time classics

if this man disappears, we all know the reason

music was REALLY loud for a tech video. thanks!

Things I learned: a) How to self host b) This video used to have annoyingly loud music

Better without music

So my personal philosophy: - if project doesn’t demand absurd SLA or you just having fun, use home hosting - if initial or small deployment for high reliability, cloud makes sense. Cost of reliable internet and power usually exceeds cost of cloud (eg lambda + RDS instance) - the tipping point of dedicated local hosting is when the cost of backup power, real estate, and high SLA fiber can be amortized against cloud bill - cloud only makes sense for large loads in narrow circumstances. The overhead price for scalability is often not less than the cost of maintaining excess infra. The main variable here is time/consistency. Also worth differentiating “cloud” versus like private server hosting. I think that the typical shared data center renting rack space or even single bare metal server model looks more like home hosting with defrayed cost of reliable power and fiber. Personally being able to reconfigure my home network rack without taking down my public website is nice. Also if you try to do email from Comcast consumer IP space you will be permanently spammed. You need reverse DNS etc.

This version is actually very good! Completely watchable, professional, and engaging, compared to the version with the loud music. Over there, I constantly felt like I want to turn the volume down, but I would also not be able to hear your voice

I am verry impressed by the details and all in one description you are delivering here. Thank you verry much!

As a software engineer who has worked with bare metals, hybrid infrastructure and Cloud I tell you cheap is a very relative concept. You can deploy anything on your cheap notebook, but maintaining it will be a pain. Backup, upgrades and disk replacement is just something you have to consistently consider when you host these things. I used to work in a company where the infrastructure was hybrid, we hosted our stuff through VMware and bare metal, and it was a pain. Setting up distaste recovery plans and monitoring was just annoying. No one wanted to do it. And with the cloud you just trust it will work. It’s truly on another level.

I just watched your previous video and now i am hooked to your channel. Nice content.

Been wanting to self-host and this was a great start. Awesome video, man!

The way you showcased how things would actually work if self hosted is really impressive. I, for the longest time, wanted to self host my website, blogs, packages, etc. But I couldn't figure out how to do it. This just gives me a reason to do it. Thanks.

Your passion is contagious, I know what I will do this summer.