If you plan to offer a service tied to a website you make for your client, what are the advantages of self hosting compared to relying on third party services?
Static sites, CMS, newsletter, emails, form handling and more..
An easy example is forms: you can either use formspree or install one of the countless foss form handlers you can find online..
In my mind it's definitely cooler to offer all the services your client needs + you can also charge for them without having to pay for 5 different plans on other platforms, just your VPS or dedicated machine, more income and less expenses. But I see it can be hard to manage outages sometimes or issues that can come with self hosting.
It's offering a service vs being just a reseller.
My experience with self hosting stuff on my own (for my own use) so far has been quite good. I don't use containerization and I carefully config everything needed the first time, then I reverse proxy through cloudflare, after that I rarely have issues and if I have I simply rely on logs.
In my mind it doesn't seem too hard to install a couple of services and make accounts for my clients + fixing something not working every now and then.
My only concern with that is if one day I will want to stop being a developer, how will I handle the quantity of people relying on my server and everything I will hold.
Interested in your thoughts and experience about self hosting vs relying on third parts!
Ehy! Little update: I actually tried to do a small dose balancing with cbd, after learning that the stuff we had till the 90s was definitely not the stuff we have today (20-30% of THC) but rather something more similar to a 5%, with a ratio THC:CBD 1:3 or even higher on the cbd side. Edibles were probably usually consumed with sosages up to 5mg of THC which was well balanced by cbd as explained before.
So I simply tried to honor what the wild plant would contain and did some edibles with very low THC (2.5-3mg) and ratio 1:3 with cbd. It worked wonderfully.
The feeling is definitely different from a microdose, but you do get some of the benefits. It is physically similar, and you get some of the mind space, but it feels like less creative/less novelty seeking mechanism, but can be helpful, iI feel like for me it can work on short term but cannot do it for weeks and keep achieving good results like with psychedelics.