
Sitefinity Cloud vs. Self-Hosted: Three Hosting Modes and How to Choose
Three ways to run Sitefinity: self-hosted, Sitefinity Cloud with Developer Extensions, and fully managed. How to pick by customization, operational load, and upgrades.
Two articles on hosting modes and the parts of a cloud bill that never appear on the cloud bill.
Sitefinity Cloud covers patching, scaling, and uptime commitments. Self-hosting wins when data residency, custom network controls, or an existing platform team make that control worth the operational load.
The invoice is the visible part. The rest is egress, the engineering time to re-platform, and licensing that changes shape once you move.
Three, and the choice is usually made once and lived with for years — which is why we published the decision tree instead of a recommendation.

Three ways to run Sitefinity: self-hosted, Sitefinity Cloud with Developer Extensions, and fully managed. How to pick by customization, operational load, and upgrades.

A developer's case for Sitefinity Cloud — what self-managing actually costs, what changes on Cloud, and when staying self-managed is still the right call.
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