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

I tried the music and the feedback is clear enough that I think it's worth uploading a version of this with no music. I'm still learning!

I'm sorry :( I really liked the riff I wrote for the intro since it has a time signature of 7/4 but I got carried away a bit...

Let's spin up a server a simpler way.I'm experimenting with some background music, let me know what you think.In this video I will be showing how to use fundamentals to spin up a server, replacing cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud Provider and Microsoft Azure with Linux, Docker and Git. For many applications, the tools we use are grossly over-engineered. I'm trying to force myself to rethink my approach and use simpler tools. Hosting this server is part of that.

[darrenzou]

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

[Ghaz]

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)

[valdimer]

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

[urzaaaaa]

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

[MtMng]

Things I learned:

a) How to self host

b) This video used to have annoyingly loud music

[Sultan___]

music was REALLY loud for a tech video. thanks!

[ev.c]

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.

[thestefandjokic]

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

[JammUtkarsh]

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.

[NicholasAndre]

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.

[philosophopotamus]

Nice video! I built my second startup using FreeBSD jails, Git, and Gitlab CI/CD. It's definitely possible to avoid cloud complexity until you really need it. Love your approach here, keeps things nice and simple but leaves options for later on the table. Bravo.

[awksedgreep]

Very wise. We’ve traded a strong magic aversion to layers of magic recently. Too much magic equals too little understanding.

[iamanishkumar]

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

[RobertFletcherOBE]

oddly enough seeing (no music) bought me to the channel. This was a really interesting watch, thanks for posting it (and keeping the presentation simple :) )

[gungun]

Without a too loud music. The video is still good !
Since you always show things on screen while never stop of talking. There is no blank and that’s perfect.
That’s nice of you to have made this modification and that show your dedication in your channel.
Anyway nice job. I didn’t subscribe in the first video but it’s now done ^^

[itsthedaner]

dude i was already hooked after you started out saying everything ive been experiencing about industry in the first 2 minutes, and then you mentioned nixos and i literally started cheering. this video is what all developers and enterprise archtiects need to see. we waste so much effort over engineering simple scripts to work in aws that should be a collection of systemd units configured with nix on a SINGLE ec2 or, better yet, an on prem computer. i swear sometimes my work laptop could run our data pipelines every morning that we currently deploy with terraform and aws lambda

[lilykittens]

I like this approach because it keeps everything simple and transparent whilst being containerized so that if it ever needed to scale or go be deployed in new regions it would be pretty simple to rent some instances from whatever provider and deploy there. You're also not locked into a SaSS service when they go bust, change their prices, get acquired. You're just picking solid open source software and self hosting along with the rest of your infra.

SaSS is fine to get started but once you get locked in it's designed so that you can't escape.

[sinterusde]

"I sleep for 30 seconds since it's easier than doing a health check" best life advice here

[MrJellekeulemans]

Saved this. I’m a big fan of self hosting and love the thought you put in software you can run instead of picking defaults like nginx and Ubuntu.

[botam]

You earned my trust in less than 15 minutes. Subscribed!