[AussieWog93]

I've thought the exact same thing recently, after getting some mini PCs from a mate who does used IT equipment for dirt cheap.

The unfortunate reality, at least in Australia, is that fast internet with the same level of uptime as what you'd get in a datacenter costs more than just renting a server on Digital Ocean.

Perhaps there's a market out there for small cloud providers who could amortise this expensive internet cost among dozens or hundreds of servers, but for a one-off you're either going to need to deal with the unreliability and low upload speeds of home internet or just cough at the trough to get a cloud instance.