@beto oh! And now with kubernetes et al, life is much more stable.

@beto preach

@beto

I am an IT freelancer, and I expect to be working near-exclusively with Windows Servers for the foreseeable future, in spite of being 1000% with you on the above.

The problem is, how to convince a non-techie to trust you to know how to setup the "weird" free stuff in a way that works, vs. the corporate product with clear expectations and a budgetable price?

The joke at my last job was that I could trash the servers and fly to Mexico, and I mean, yes, but not with money or anything.

@beto May I add: Save every file in an Open format ?

@beto it took me a long time to learn this. So much unnecessary SAAS. I can bloody do it myself.

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3. Protocols over products.

@beto Self hosting was great when I could afford a leased line into the house. It's not really 'self hosting' when it's out in the cloud, and managing cloud servers is not as easy.

@beto I do not understand why the IT industry doesn't work like the plumbing, or electrical, or whatever, industry. You have a server sitting in a cupboard, or in your attic, or wherever. When something goes wrong you can call any one of dozens of local businesses to fix it. It plugs into municipal infrastructure.

The IT state of the art is basically Word Perfect, Lotus 1-2-3, and AOL, but with advertising, surveillance, censorship, and your data held hostage on the mainframe (or "cloud").

@beto 3) You have money and time to do the above.

It is really not possible for a lot of people. Experts underestimate the learning curve, which was often different when they set out.