When you are buying a cloud service, you are exchanging money for the time and effort to set up and maintain the servers. Of course, you can set up your own se

When you are buying a cloud service, you are exchanging money for the time and effort to set up and maintain the servers. Of course, you can set up your own server in a cheap rate, but you will need to spend much time and effort on setting up everything including the hardware, software, connections, electricity etc. Keeping the server up and online is not an easy task from a household location. Load balancing, keeping backup servers... as time goes, you lose more time and more money. When you buy from AWS/Google/DigitalOcean — you just pay the money and - bam! - you have everything at your service.