alt Hacker NewsHuh? Maybe I missed something, but...why should self-hosting a database server be hard or scary? Sure, you are then responsible for security backups, etc...but that's not really different in the cloud - if anything, the cloud makes it more complicated.
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empthought • yesterday at 5:16 PM
Self-hosting a database server is not particularly hard or scary for an engineer.
Hiring and replacing engineers who can and want to manage database servers can be hard or scary for employers.
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xboxnolifes • yesterday at 4:52 PM
I'd say a managed dB, at minimum, should be handling upgrades and backups for you. If it doesn't, thats not a managed db, thats a self-service db. You're paying a premium to do the work yourself.
Well for the clickops folks who've built careers on the idea that 'systems administration is dead'... I imagine having to open a shell and install some stuff or modify a configuration file is quite scary.