On: Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Sl...

[slig]

For $20/m ($5 for a droplet and $15 for a managed DB instance) you can have that peace of mind on DO.

[sjy → slig]

Paying $15/month for a managed database is not self-hosting.

[slig → sjy]

One would still have the fun of maintaining the application server updated.

[kevindong → slig]

There's much more to hosting a service than standing it up on the modern equivalent of an VM and assuming it'll never need to be touched again.

[slig → kevindong]

Sure, but the parent was talking about the difficulties of handling a DB server.