[sp332]

I think the hardware lifecycle heavily favors the home server. This is reflected in the much higher cost of cloud computing vs owning the hardware. Cloud components have to be standardized and are swapped out en masse every few years.

[Yetanfou]

The price of cloud computing is higher than that of owning and running the hardware. As to whether that implies the cost of running a commercial cloud is higher than that of running individual servers on customer premises is doubtful. I assume that the likes of Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and Oracle do not run commercial cloud operations at a loss.