That will be the time where I‘ll migrate of Atlassian products ro something else. No way I‘m going to use a cloud-product that is that slow.
What are good alternatives to Jira, Bitbucket and Confluence?
Bitbucket is absolutely terrible.
Jira is over-complicated and a server administration nightmare.
I probably like Confluence the most, ironically I didn’t like it until we switched to the cloud version and actually started getting new features and fixes (since nobody has time to actually maintain and upgrade it on-premise).
Confluence was fine for me on Server, but the cloud version is really slow. Try to use it on an underperforming notebook and you‘ll constantly see „something wen‘t wrong, try reloading“.
As someone who has administered Jira, I wouldn’t wish that task on anyone.
It’s a nightmare of undocumented quirks and issues.
I don’t know if any business of any size can justify self-hosting it.
If you think this is some sort of big loss for small businesses and bootstrappers...not really. You don’t need nearly any of the Atlassian suite until you’ve become big enough to have middle management breathing down your neck about story points.
Even so there will be some opportunity for a savvy business to come in and offer a compelling self hosted product. Though the big question is if the costs of supporting many small businesses self hosting this software be worth what they are willing to pay for it.
The other key feature that will be required is easy importing of Atlassian data to these self hosted solutions.
