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ergonaught 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Go ahead, self-host Postgres

> Self-hosting a database sounds terrifying.

Is this actually the "common" view (in this context)?

I've got decades with databases so I cannot even begin to fathom where such an attitude would develop, but, is it?

Boggling.

Nextgrid 7 months ago | [–]

Over a decade of cloud provider propaganda achieves that. We appear to have lost the basic skill of operating a *nix machine, so anything even remotely close to that now sounds terrifying.

You mean you need to SSH into the box? Horrifying!

gnusi 7 months ago | [–]

Can't agree more.

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