The SaaS Trap: How Per-Seat Pricing Pushes You Toward Self-Hosting

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0000

There is a particular moment, familiar to anyone who has run a small team, where you log into a tool you’ve happily paid for for years, go to add a new colleague, and watch the price quietly leap by another tenner a month. Do it five times and the friendly little subscription has become a line on the budget that someone, eventually, is going to question. That moment is when otherwise sensible people start googling “self-hosted alternative to” — and per-seat pricing is the reason.

The Real Cost of Self-Hosting: Electricity, Time, and What You Actually Save

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:00:00 +0000

There is a story self-hosters tell themselves, usually at about 1am while staring at a rack of blinking lights, and it goes like this: “I’m saving so much money by not paying for all these subscriptions.” It is a lovely story. It is also, in my experience, mostly fiction — or at least a great deal more complicated than the version we like to repeat at dinner parties to justify the noise coming from the cupboard.

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The SaaS Trap: How Per-Seat Pricing Pushes You Toward Self-Hosting

The Real Cost of Self-Hosting: Electricity, Time, and What You Actually Save