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Because you are in the software business, not the hosting business.

Over the long run, a hosting company should be able to keep your website up and running "in less time", "higher quality", and "cheaper" than you can.

If your business can host websites more efficiently and effectively than a hosting firm, maybe you are in the wrong business and should become a hosting company for other firms?

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Well, holy cow. If he can cook a frozen pizza cheaper than ordering from dominoes maybe he should be in the restaurant business instead of the software business.

Not exactly, what is being proposed is more along the lines of making your own dough, sauce and then a pizza versus ordering a pizza or cooking a frozen one. Your home made pizza might taste a bit better, but why are you spending your time making pizza's when all you want to do is eat them?

Because they taste better.

Which brings us back to the very first point made by kitcar. If you can make pizzas that taste better than Dominos and have a comparable price, then why aren't you a pizza company?

Now I understand. Anyone who is a good cook, should quit whatever job they have, unless they work in a restaurant as a cook, and start a restaurant.

Interesting point. But, I don't think it applies. We're in the computing business. Computing is not just software. It's hardware. Developer time is expensive, hardware is cheap. Throwing cheap hardware at a problem rather than spending weeks or months coding around a VPS's performance limitations seems like a no-brainer to me.

My particular use case is that I need performance and cheap computing power, and I'm willing to sacrifice a bit of reliability to get there.

And, I'm sure that over the long run, you're right. A hosting company will be a better choice.

Core competency ESP?

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