[seleniumbase]

The biggest issue with going from a home machine to a server is that you may lose having a "residential IP address", which is something that you'll want to have in order to prevent automation from being blocked outright. Hence the popularity of residential proxies. However, some servers live in a residential IP space, which makes them optimal for running web automation in. As was partially covered in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr90iQmNsKM, GitHub Actions appears to live in a "Residential IP space", which makes it a good server choice for web automation.

[ghxst]

IP is definitely not the biggest issue in my experience, as proxies are required at scale regardless, unless you get into more theoretical areas like p0f.

The biggest issues are the ones that aren't obvious or easily tested for like missing a particular font, being on an abnormal gfx driver that produces an unidentified hash for particular fingerprint methods, not having certain APIs available that require browser patches, and then these aspects will differ between anti bot vendors and the data sets that they have.

The reason they can be hard to test for is that everything is based on a trust score, which is potentially influenced by anything from website load to things tied to your personal session and for some vendors optionally even input data.