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Why is a web developer managing their own servers in 2023?

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Cost?

Persude of knowledge?

Why do you ask a question like this on a hacker news forum?

Start being more curious!

> Start being more curious!

The user was curious and asked a question.

C’mon. It was a judgement in the form of a facetious question - even ChatGPT could recognize that.

No, I was curious ?

Mainly cost. I also don't mind the insane performance of bare metal :)

https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-have-left-the-cloud-251760fb

Ok I find it amazing it’s cheaper to host your own on bare metal ? I was also curious what type of stuff you’re building as a web developer ? Django ? Must be decent scale?

I host things on GCP which scale to zero in quiet times, they saved me a bunch of cash…

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