You don’t pay for electricity or pay a fee for using the data center? You don’t pay an engineer to do maintenance? You don’t pay for your own alerting system? You don’t pay for the network security tools? You don’t pay for your subscription to Docker Hub? You don’t pay for a second physical location you can swap to in an incident?
I do these migrations for a living. I know you’re a liar. Cloud beats on prem everytime. You simply cannot compete with their economy of scale.
If you’re doing actual big compute its cheaper in the cloud. Considerably. It’s also very easy and cheap to store lots of data. You will never be able to compete with their price for storage so I have no idea why you think that would be true.
I’ve done the on prem design. I’ve migrated people entirely to the cloud. I specialize a little in between.
Without any shred of doubt the cloud is going to be more cost effective than self hosting for 99% of all use cases. They’re priced that way intentionally. You cannot compete with Cloudflare/AWS/GCP/Vultr/Akami/Digital Ocean/etc.
My homelab isn’t about scaling, production workloads and definitely isn’t accessible to anyone but me. I’d argue using it in any other way defeats the purpose and shows a lack of understanding.
That’s not the point. Its unprofessional. Someone is going to smash and grab OPs idea and actually have the skills to host it properly. Probably at a fraction of the cost because OP doesn’t understand that hosting SaaS products out of his house isn’t professional or effective.
Also; cloud is cheaper than self hosting at any small amount of scale. This wouldn’t cost much to run in AWS if built properly. The people who struggle with AWS costs are not professionals and have no business hosting anything.
SLAs?
You’re going to need a redundant ISP and a generator. You’ve left the territory where it’s economical to self host something if that’s what you’re looking at. You still have several other single points of failure.
And I’ll be honest, your setup isn’t ready for an SLA either. Just having a second machine is such a small part of what you need to do before doing any guarantees. Are you using a Dynamic DNS service? What’s the networking setup look like? Router to Compute?
From the sounds of it, you’re not a professional. It might be time to engage an expert if you want to grow this.
I’m not asking you to. Those are rhetorical. You either pay for them and are wrong about your costs or you don’t pay for them and you’re a hack, your software is a joke, and you don’t belong in tech.
You’re either lying or not knowledgeable on the topic enough to have an informed opinion.