I moved away from FreeBSD to Debian for hosting my things because the process/daemon management was too tricky. You seem to have figured out a good solution, but I wanted something simpler like PM2 for automatic process management/restarting/logs. Unfortunately PM2 has an issue [1] that makes it unworkable with FreeBSD. It would be so nice if FreeBSD had a smooth, more declarative way of managing processes.

1. https://github.com/Unitech/pm2/issues/5718

The AWS Rust SDK also seemed very mature to me when I was using it ... compare to:

>the only option for a database instance with a free plan was [...] serverless Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL)

>the MSSQL connection required TLS and this hadn’t been implemented in the sqlx connector I chose to use for my Rust-based functions. I wasted two weeks implementing TLS support in sqlx

That is insane. Not to mention the later bit with sudden, unexplained availability and the only hint that it might to be related to a _future_ deprecation? Like, imagine if this were a critical service for you. Professional malpractice on Microsoft's part.

This isn't really the main point of the article, and I did find the stuff on self-hosting interesting, but it does seem like this could have been avoided if Azure had lived up to its peers.

I'm now thinking something like Supabase or Convex may be the way to go for personal projects. Any experiences?

I never worked at Amazon but understand they give you generally open ended access for learning/testing?

Surely there plenty of business value in getting someone like the author to ensure Rust applications run smoothly with all their products.

Needless to say that those details weren't rewarding at all. Knowing them just served the ego of specific vendors, who were more than happy to pull a rug under your feet with deprecations, migrations, and "required actions" I had to manually follow in order to keep the services just running.

Enough is enough. One sunny day in 2021, I started to migrate the infrastructure using a garage inspired approach. Dockerfile became a breath of fresh air, a relieve after the years of convoluted dictatorships. No more dependencies on ever-changing whims of individual cloud vendors, no rug pulls. Just you, your services, and freedom.

I had no prerogative of keeping my servers near me, instead I found a good home at fly.io. I still use Azure, this time not as a swiss-knife almighty cloud, but as an interchangeable commodity supplier (storage).