I both maintain a server cabinet at home and rent VMs from providers. There are many reasons people don't self-host: noise, heat, dealing with hardware setup, e

I both maintain a server cabinet at home and rent VMs from providers. There are many reasons people don't self-host: noise, heat, dealing with hardware setup, etc. And if any of your service receives public traffic, you'll have to be very careful in configuring it because you don't want attackers to target your home network or the ISP/police to come at you for illegal traffic on your line. $85/month is a lot of money, but given the number of services he runs on his server, each service now costs roughly $3/month, lower than the price of the cheapest DigitalOcean droplet.