I think it’s hard to justify running your own setup in 2019 when you can get Linode/DO for 5$ a month. Sure, CPUs are cheap and (if you’re lucky enough to live

I think it’s hard to justify running your own setup in 2019 when you can get Linode/DO for 5$ a month. Sure, CPUs are cheap and (if you’re lucky enough to live somewhere that’s offers it) consumer internet can be absurdly fast. But if youra app goes down at a critical moment because your consumer-grade ISP has an outage, or someone tripped over the Ethernet cable, or you had a brown out because you live in the UK and everyone put the kettle on at the same time, you’re going to look like a bit of an idiot.