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Comparing Typesense Cloud vs Self-hosted Options

TLDR Ailish asked for a comparison between Typesense Cloud and self-hosting. Kishore Nallan explained that self-hosting could be more complex for new teams but viable for experienced ones, and starting on cloud then migrating is an acceptable strategy.

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Mar 22, 2022 (22 months ago)

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Ailish

10:17 AM

Hi again 🙂 Anyone know of anything online comparing the tradeoffs between hosting with Typesense Cloud vs. self hosting Typesense (on AWS for example)? I was planning to host on AWS but project complexity has driven a need to reduce scope and I’d like to have some solid figures, pros, and cons to present to my client for their consideration. Any info is appreciated!

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Kishore Nallan

03:19 PM

We've strived to make Typesense really easy to operate on your own hardware. If the client already has a team that's familiar running other distributed systems in-house (like Kafka or Redis cluster), they should have no problem with Typesense.

03:20

Kishore Nallan

03:20 PM

The cost of managing one more service in-house is amortised across several services. However, if this is the first clustered application they will be managing in-house, the odds are less favourable in terms of time/resource/expertise required.

Mar 23, 2022 (22 months ago)

Ailish

12:32 PM

Thanks Kishore Nallan and I believe the major advantage would be ease of setup in that case, right? Trying to get something off the ground ASAP and messing with AWS configs may slow things down.

12:33

Ailish

12:33 PM

Would it be a viable option to kick the service off on Typesense cloud and migrate to their own hosted version somewhere down the line if they felt their needs required it?

Kishore Nallan

12:37 PM

Yup that's hundred percent fine! Until you have some experience with Typesense easy to get things going on cloud.

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