[peeters]

If you're just talking about this as an alternative to renting metal in EC2, it's probably worth acknowledging why that exists in the first place. Bare metal server hosting doesn't exist to provide some unique functionality. It's outsourcing server maintenance. It's an answer to the question: "why can't we just pay somebody else to keep this server available for us?". If you don't want to outsource that task, you're not fundamentally missing out on anything by not using it.

That said here is an incomplete list of things in the greater system that self-hosters frequently need to think about, and that AWS sometimes does a good job of handling for you:

- Routing/DNS/Static IP

- Administrative access control

- Firewall

- Load balancing

- Redundant storage

- Server failover

- Power redundancy

- Network redundancy

In particular, some of these things benefit a lot more from economies of scale than the server hosting itself.

[Chyzwar]

My PC under desk have better uptime that us-east-1. What is really required to run the own datacenter is static IP and Linux knowledge.

[grocketeer]

I love your take! haha