> A freelancer is hired part time for the duration of the vaccations. It cost a full dev salary for one month, taking in consideration training time, that's all.
You pay a full dev salary for one month every time someone wants to take a break?
It’s baffling that anyone can read an article about someone spending $400/month on cloud services and then start proposing things like this as an alternative.
Engineering labor is expensive. Cloud is surprisingly cheap once you factor in engineering costs.
One month part time once a year as an additional cost is way, way cheaper than anything else.
> Cloud is surprisingly cheap once you factor in engineering costs.
No, it's not, since you need somebody qualified to operate it. And such qualificatied employees is very expensive. And you will need them on call anyway, since it will break, just in different way than a bunch of private servers.
I'd argue the cloud would be more expensive, even if hosting were not, because you need a more expensive team to run it.
You pay a full dev salary for one month every time someone wants to take a break?
It’s baffling that anyone can read an article about someone spending $400/month on cloud services and then start proposing things like this as an alternative.
Engineering labor is expensive. Cloud is surprisingly cheap once you factor in engineering costs.