Is there a demand for self hosted cloud services?

Question

As we become more entrenched in the world of cloud and dependent on the likes of AWS, Azure and GCP not just for compute but their services, something I wonder is whether self-hosted cloud services as a concept will take off. Whether that be in alternate locations to the existing incumbent cloud providers or on home servers. Curious to get some feedback here as to whether it's even of interest?

PaulKeeble · Accepted Answer

People are using cloud servers for the purpose of running self hosted applications. One of the problems is often at the backbone of self hosting is a NAS containing sizeable files such as video. Most internet connections are quite limited speed wise and having it internal to the network works a lot better. The one exception being offsite backup.
The big cloud providers are also all far too expensive and complicated to be worthwhile for this sort of hosting where substantially cheaper and less capable providers will do the job more than adequately. Smaller and cheaper offers like from Hetzner and Contabo VPS are much more likely to be used in my experience with the self hosting community.
I host a bunch of stuff on my home NAS/server and ultimately did away with google and a lot of other cloud services and restored my privacy over the past couple of years with software like NextCloud and FreshRSS.

aynyc · Answer

Isn't AWS Outpost just that?AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that offers the same AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience. AWS Outposts is ideal for workloads that require low latency access to on-premises systems, local data processing, data residency, and migration of applications with local system interdependencies.AWS compute, storage, database, and other services run locally on Outposts, and you can access the full range of AWS services available in the Region to build, manage, and scale your on-premises applications using familiar AWS services and tools.https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/

gostsamo · Answer

I'm interested in having my own cloud, but data backup, security, reliability, and convenience are expensive to have at the same time. If someone can package them in a box and sell them in a privacy respecting manner, I'd be interested in trying.

st1x7 · Answer

IBM sell services (aka "Cloud Paks") that you can run on anything that can run OpenShift be it your own servers or another cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).

matdehaast · Answer

Having just purchased my own server at Hetzner, I do believe that there will potentially be more appetite for somewhat of a cloud hybrid