alt Hacker NewsIt means you take responsibility of maintaining the server forever, i.e. dealing with TLS certificates, SSH keys, security updates, OS/package updates, monitoring, reboots when stuck, redeploy when VPS retired, etc. Usually things work fine for a year or two and then stuff starts to get old and need attention and eat your time.
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Oh no! Issuing SSL certificates! The horror!
I really doubt that people who can’t install an ssh key should be able to practice software engineering. Sometimes, I think that software engineering should be a protected profession like other types of engineering. At least it will filter out the people who can’t keep their OS up to date.
certbot and ssh keys are things you set up once
I haven't rebooted my DO droplets in something like 5 years. I don't monitor anything. None of them have been "retired".
vs. trusting someone else to do all that for you, and do you then verify that it gets done properly?
This is extremely easy with tools like dokploy tho... I use dokploy locally to manage all my VPSs + home server. Truly good stuff and I don't believe your quip at the end, it feels like poisoning the open source waters for consolidated anti democratic cloud platforms.
It's way way way way easier managing a basic VPS that can be highly performant for your needs. If this was 2010, I'd agree with you but tooling and practices have gotten so much better over the last decade (especially the last 5 years).
just ask claude to do all that :), he is excellent and installing & managing new servers and making sure all security patches are updated. Just be careful if its a high risk project.