I get the appeal of being able to rent an inexpensive dedicated server, have a whole computer to oneself, and have so much spare computing capacity that one doe

I get the appeal of being able to rent an inexpensive dedicated server, have a whole computer to oneself, and have so much spare computing capacity that one doesn't have to really think about it. It does feel liberating, compared to being nickled and dimed by one of the cloud providers, and having to put up with the overhead of virtualization and networked block storage. But what feels better still is knowing that I can put my phone in airplane mode and trust that the cloud provider will keep my application running, including automatically restarting it on a different physical machine, switching the database over to a hot spare, etc. I could hypothetically script all of that myself in a bare metal setup, but when the shit hits the fan, my home-made solution would be much more likely to fail than AWS auto scaling and RDS.