Yeah, self-hosting is definitely having a come back. Lots of content creators who would have been evangelizing cloud solutions in the past have been instead going into the various self hosting rabbit holes. There is a bit of a pendulum swing. You now have access to so much information and tooling to host your own things, itβs pretty awesome compared to what we had before 2010.
Not sure how much impact that will have for companies, that will likely stay more niche. Companies will still want to delegate much of the effort to a cloud provider, but with pressure to have less lock-in
I've worked for a corp that spent good money to mirror their entire Salesforce setup internally on the basis that Salesforce was expensive, slow, and had all their customer data and could bring the entire business to its knees.
I've worked for another corp that spent insane amounts for a CMS that nobody understood and required a full time engineer on duty to "unlock" files for the content team - this company later built a simple CMS that just stored a title, body and image in a database because I shit you not: thats 90% of what they needed from a CMS and to do quick announcements/news in a mobile app would have taken weeks longer to develop if they had to integrate with the real CMS.
This was a few years ago before LLMs btw, so I can only imagine how crazy it is today
Kind of unavoidable now for hosting companies purchasing new hardware, much as diesel costs are affecting trucking companies.
Let's say theoretically that a company decides to buy raw rack space+power colo and DIY your own router setup, upstream IP transit connections and buy their own server hardware... You're suffering equally from the increase in RAM costs buying your server hardware much the same as if you go with a dedicated bare metal hardware hosting company.
Not sure how much impact that will have for companies, that will likely stay more niche. Companies will still want to delegate much of the effort to a cloud provider, but with pressure to have less lock-in