> Warning: This setup doesn't provide high level of security or any high availability. You have to hire some skilled devops engineer (like me)) for close this gap after getting first round or sales.
And this is exactly why managed SaaS is popular. Pulling a repo of a popular open source project and deploying it to your server seems trivial, and you wonder why there are idiots out there paying through their nose for subscriptions. Then you realize your service has to be up 100% of the time, has to scale to more than a handful of users, you have to perform regular backups (and ensure they actually work), all user access has to be audited, you have to offer IT support to all your employees. Very soon your full time job at the company isn't building products for customers but managing an internal chat server. And then the couple hundred bucks a month other companies pay to Slack and Google start to make sense.
> Warning: This setup doesn't provide high level of security or any high availability. You have to hire some skilled devops engineer (like me)) for close this gap after getting first round or sales.
And this is exactly why managed SaaS is popular. Pulling a repo of a popular open source project and deploying it to your server seems trivial, and you wonder why there are idiots out there paying through their nose for subscriptions. Then you realize your service has to be up 100% of the time, has to scale to more than a handful of users, you have to perform regular backups (and ensure they actually work), all user access has to be audited, you have to offer IT support to all your employees. Very soon your full time job at the company isn't building products for customers but managing an internal chat server. And then the couple hundred bucks a month other companies pay to Slack and Google start to make sense.