> and pay an ISP $$$ for unusually high upload bandwidth/throughput? But the ISPs I know do not bill $$$ if you use the max bandwidth (max bandwith they did ad

> and pay an ISP $$$ for unusually high upload bandwidth/throughput? But the ISPs I know do not bill $$$ if you use the max bandwidth (max bandwith they did advertize to you btw) for a sustained amount of time: they'll just start throttling you. Anyway GP ain't asking about "cloud vs hosting at home" but about "cloud vs dedicated server(s)".