managed-vs-selfhosted SKILL.md skillA
managed-vs-selfhosted from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/managed-vs-selfhosted@git:20260720.3c9eba4Pins git:20260720.3c9eba4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/cloud/managed-vs-selfhosted/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260720.3c9eba4, committed Jul 20, 2026
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- 3,335 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Decide between managed services and self-hosting with honest TCO, lock-in assessment, and exit paths. Use when choosing infrastructure components or revisiting a costly managed dependency.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Managed vs self-hosted The sticker price comparison is always wrong in both directions: self-hosting hides engineer-hours, managed hides egress, per-request fees, and the price of leaving. Compare total costs including the exit. ## Method 1. **Default managed for anything stateful and boring.** Databases, queues, object storage, Kubernetes control planes: the undifferentiated heavy lifting where your custom requirements are near zero and the failure cost is high. Reserve self-hosting appetite for components where you have real differentiating requirements or crushing scale economics. 2. **Compute TCO with engineer-hours priced in.** Self-hosted = instances + storage + the fraction of engineers who patch, upgrade, back up, tune, and get paged for it (0.25-1.0 FTE per serious stateful system is realistic) + the incident cost of doing it worse than a provider's dedicated team. Managed = service fees + the traffic-shaped charges (egress, per-request, per-connection) modeled at 10x your current volume, because that is when renegotiating is hardest. 3. **Grade the lock-in by interface, not vendor.** Open-protocol …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/managed-vs-selfhosted@sha256:ac77d0c0023a5597The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260720.3c9eba4, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 20, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ormm7pgjipen3hci GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/managed-vs-selfhosted GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ac77d0c0023a559795bde83aec118190e5c87648d561052b2f2f2175efda83b3
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.