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I don't know about you but this seems ai generated
Are you saying that it isn't a picture of the cloud (or of an IA barrister in a British court)?
Did we culturally forget that digital art and photoshopping exist for a minute?
This is just an ad for "Viduli, The AI-native cloud platform"
The discussion itself is off-topic for this community anyway. Who would even think about using "serverless" for self-hosting?
I use serverless via knative in my homelab...
Why wouldn’t serverless technologies be relevant to the self hosted community?
The discussion is off topic for the same reason web development software patterns or the benefits of choosing one language over another aren't really relevant to the selfhosting community. Because most self-hosters don't develop the software they host, they set up existing software. Serverless technology itself might be relevant, if there was a project using that, but how the architectural decision impacts software development is not really relevant to self-hosters.
On the contrary, lots of us write our own scripts and programs. And when considering how to self host that software, serverless is a perfectly valid choice.
Just because many self hosters are hobbyists who are only capable of using things off the shelf doesn’t make self hosting infrastructure outside the scope of… selfhosting lol
I'm sure 'serverless' has a good time and place to be used, but in my experience it has just always been the worse choice.
"But we need to be able to scale!"
Sure, but we're not in a place where we're getting anywhere near early mySpace / Facebook / Google style growth. Just get a regular ass cheap VPS and stick your service on it; if you need to expand upgrade the VPS. If it's starts getting serious then let's look at compartmentalizing and distributing it if we need to.
It really is such a cool concept. The autism in me hates the name though because there's always a server. I wish it were called a "container-based service" or even just "containers" instead of serverless to be more direct. Perhaps even "web functions."
There's so much big talk about scale but really, scaling is not that important to 99% of businesses I've worked at. You're not a startup. Your typical server has a huge amount of resources if managed appropriately. I guarantee and would bet money that you'll never have a million users let alone a billion using your medical coding web app. Like, sit down!
What does this have to do with self-hosting?
So people know what not to do for selfhosting. Don't self host in lambdas people. 🤣
Tbh it speaks volumes that none of the hundreds of containers I run - none of them had this in the instructions "you should use serverless".
Who is self-hosting in lambdas? Isn't the idea of self-hosting to control your infrastructure (preferably including the hardware) ?
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2025
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