Is cloud hosting a better solution?

[Shawn Gossman]

Anymore it seems everything is going cloud hosting.

It's hard to find self-hosted software these days. Most are SaaS, Software as a Service, where the software is hosted on the service's cloud-based servers.

It could mean higher costs for some of us but lower costs for some of us too.

It definitely means less control.

How do you feel about it? Are you a rather they host it kind of admin or do you have to have that control?

If your favorite forum platform went to the cloud and no longer offered self-hosted software, would you change platforms because of it or would you convert?

 

[ClicketyKat]

I don't have my own server for Crafter Craze, so I'm not sure it would make a difference for me? I wouldn't mind it at all.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I use a VPS for this one. So I don’t really have my own server myself. But I just like having control to my files. I’m too old school to be accepting of a cloud solution right now.