Are you sure that your applications is really not working or did you configure some arcane route within Azure wrongly? Having a self-hosted server eliminates a

Are you sure that your applications is really not working or did you configure some arcane route within Azure wrongly? Having a self-hosted server eliminates a lot of these questions. For hosting in production a managed cloud VM might be sensible as these services often provide additional functions like doing health checks, automatic renewal for tls certs, protection against attacks, etc..... Sure, you can get that on your personal server too, but it does need maintenance. For development/testing/staging I prefer to have a non-managed server. That said, for most applications it is enough to keep the system of the host up to date and that is easier today than ever before and you might even be faster here than large cloud providers who have a bit of a momentum until problems get addressed. Also cloud providers do change their infrastructure and might force you to adapt. That can mean extra work out of the blue. They tend to leave your systems as they are, but if you need to update certain components you have to read up on their docs again.