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by throwaway91822 1637 days ago
I maintained a datacenter with approx 1000 hypervisors with a very small team and took few weeks to start having production workloads. The effort to maintain hardware was quite little and it was hugely cheaper than any cloud service.

Having said that, your requirement is pretty absurd. Billions of people choose to own and maintain houses and cars and cook their own food because it's cheaper than the alternatives. Nobody expects them to be professional mechanics or cooks.

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> Nobody expects them to be professional mechanics or cooks.

To be fair, there’s also nobody that would listen to them over a professional mechanic or cook.

And they wouldn't open a commercial restaurant on top of their DIY "home food infrastructure".
Airbnb? :)

You’ve got a very wide variety of home professionals, especially looking at YouTubers, some being fantastic, while others …not so much.