I am old sysadmin and understand your motivation. Technical people want to control their environment by having full control of their stack (which the cloud does

I am old sysadmin and understand your motivation. Technical people want to control their environment by having full control of their stack (which the cloud doesn't give you). Those paying the bills see you as the big cost and want to avoid over reliance on an individual/s. If you aren't paying the bills use Azure. I do pay the bills for my product and use Hetzner.