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  1. Jan 2026
    1. We are aware that AWS, as the largest player, cannot be exactly matched, but we are confident that we do not have to compromise on security and availability with a European counterpart.

      this is the sticking point, and true. You cannot expect a plug and play replacement. Analyse the components, make a new necklace of the different pieces.

  2. Dec 2025
    1. The real operational complexity

      Good overview of tasks wrt selfhosting (or rather dedicated server in a non silo datacenter), weekly, monthly, quarterly. Amounts to half a day per quarter at most. You do need to time risky updates etc better, if you run stuff others depend upon, so that you can do incident response

    2. I helped prove this to myself when I migrated off RDS. I took a pg_dump of my RDS instance, restored it to a self-hosted server with identical specs, and ran my application's test suite. Performance was identical. In some cases, it was actually better because I could tune parameters that RDS locks down.

      This reads like what I did wrt Gmail 2014 and Amazon ebooks 2025. [[Leaving a walled garden or silo 20160820203833]] is listing the bits it does and originally improved for you, then rebuild outside the silo based on same components. Not difficult but needs bit of focus.