Ya but then you need to pay for a team to maintain network and continually secure and monitor the server and update/patch. The salaries of those professionals , really only make sense for a certain sized organization.
I still think small-midsized orgs may be better off in cloud for security / operations cost optimization.
That used to be the case until recently. As much as neither I nor you want to admit it -- the truth is ChatGPT can handle 99% of what you would pay for "a team to maintain network and continually secure and monitor the server and update/patch." Infact, ChatGPT surpasses them as it is all encompassing. Any company now can simply pay for OpenAI's services and save the majority of the money they would have spent on the, "salaries of those professionals." BTW, ChatGPT Pro is only $200 a month ... who do you think they would rather pay?
Here's the backstory -- I was trying to find a decent MP3 player for the iPhone and Android because the stock media players were horrible. I downloaded a bunch of apps but couldn't find a good one that just did what a normal MP3 player would do. I even ordered the top 15 MP3 players from Amazon and all of them had some type of annoying quirks. I said well ... I just have to create one myself! I decided to go the browser route as that meant I would not have to deal with the headaches of the Play Store or the Apple Store and I could still use my phone as the media player or run it on any device.
Here are some of the features my media player allows you to do:
- Create all-in-one playlists from content on YouTube, Spotify, Twitch, Instagram, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Rumble, WSHH, Facebook and X/Twitter (in other words you can jump directly between content from different platforms without reloading the page)
- Auto-sync your playlists to our server or locally in the browser
- Download your playlists as .json or .txt files
- Shareable playlist URL's
- Focus button to automatically dim the rest of the page
- Multiple playlists
- Auto-shuffle tracks, repeat track & repeat playlist
- Organize your playlists however you like
- Complete support for mobile browsers
- Play the next item and previous item without having to reload the page
- Access to the media player is free
- Search in real-time for content using lyrics or titles (think of it like an updated version of YTInstant by Feross Aboukhadijeh of Stanford University)
The site is called https://plasas.com
For performance and security reasons I did not use any platforms such as Next.js, Node.js, Vue.js, WordPress, React, etc. (although I am looking into using Erlang / OTP / BEAM for future editions) Everything is written only using HTML, CSS, jQuery/JavaScript, Linux, NGINX, MariaDB & PHP. Let me know your thoughts!