And that point can come very early. We are handling a lot of data/user. We are hosting our ES for ~$80/mo which would cost $650/mo at Algolia for the same volume. Same for logging data. We are hosting our own EHK (Heka instead of Logstash) stack for ~$50/mo (few hours of setup and ~10mins/month of maintenance) which would cost us about $500/mo if we would have stayed with Loggly (and ours will stay at about the same price well into the volume of Loggly's $1k/mo plan).
As a bootstraping startup you don't have the luxury to throw money at problems and a lot of SaaS are not well suited if you have a heavy data workload.
As a bootstraping startup you don't have the luxury to throw money at problems and a lot of SaaS are not well suited if you have a heavy data workload.