What are your expected PV per month? Out of all the hosted analytics out there, plausible is one of the most affordable solution, with a very low entry level price.
Secondly, I was specifically not critical of plausible in fact I was positive toward them.
The issue in general is that the trade off is subtle and not obvious, and I think a fair number of people think it’s an easy decision one way or another but it’s often not.
Also I was specifically not talking about larger organization level decisions as much as smaller start ups or individuals who have to make the decision.
The premise is even after this many years experience we all have with SaaS versus self hosted it’s still not an obvious decision. It seems like some people can be dismisses of it as an easy decision but the devil is in the details and the specifics of the situation.