[timonovici]

Doesn't anybody do shit on their laptop anymore or on their own server? Why does it have to be 10 thousand services, why the dependency on the network and other entities? How many of these will go bankrupt by the end of the year, how many will change their terms in an incompatible way with your company project or your personal one?

[theshrike79]

When you have your own server, you're also the server admin. When that server craps out, so do ALL of the services on it and it's you who will spend nights and weekends fixing it.

Or you can pay a few bucks here and few bucks there and the uptime is Somebody Else's Problem.

[sh87]

And you now have to trust this random 'someone else' to have done a better job than you can. My intuition says there's more FUD around uptime and availability than it deserves. If anything, the hard work of maintaining uptime and security is a great learning path that should not be missed by beginners and small teams alike.