Which is easier to maintain, cheaper, and more stable: deploying a continuously running service on a self-hosted server or launching an on-demand service in the cloud?

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What kind of services do you usually deploy on the cloud? Serverless or continuously running services?

all continuously running services; i don’t like serverless b/c i can’t set up local dev environment 

we do use hasura cloud which manages our graphQL API between clients and DB

everything else we deploy via AWS ECS

what do you mean can't setup local dev environment, if you have /api routes on nextjs, you can just call it on localhost:3000/api, no?

okay yes. but we don’t use next.js/vercel for backend 😅

i was thinking using AWS lambdas … and it’s really confusing to get local env set up

i like stuffing everything in containers so my services are portable across any cloud platform!

serverless handlers aren’t portable ☹️… handler you write on vercel won’t work on AWS …

That's true. That is another reason why I'm concerned about serverless. I don't want to be tied to a specific cloud.