Cloud vs Selfhosted

16d ago

3 replies

Hi All, My name is Arjun and I am the founder of Thinker: https://www.thinkerapp.org. Do you believe you want to own your data or are you willing to sacrifice it to a cloud for the purpose of convenience? I a, trying to understand this from a point of building Thinker Cloud.

Cloud

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Selfhosted / Offline

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Kabir @mjkabir

Depends on your financials and legal risk tolerance. We switched to cloud decade ago from full self hosted platform running five 42U cabinet full of gears in a major data center in Fremont to virtual servers across three different continents due to GDPR and other regulatory requirements. We do host a series of dark sites on our own bare metal servers for fall back redundancy that we didn’t need to deploy ever.

May 17

Arjun Acharya @arjun_acharya

@mjkabir I think i misframed the question. So thinker is currently an app that saves data on the disk and not on cloud. I wanted to understand how safe people feel storing data on the cloud vs how comfortable are they of it being on their disk which might crash anytime and loose data

May 18

Trey Winterbourne @treyww

Personally I'm a kind of an AWS Fanboy, and kind of trust them only. I tend to find myself trusting small SaaS apps very little, as often the developers are either inexperienced or just don't have a big enough budget to stay secure. It depends on the product though, Thinker being note taking and planning, seems like a fair use case for Cloud. I'd feel like my "data" is secure enough with you. How would users be able to "own your data" in this case? Would that be a possibility?

May 18