> more appealing than setting it up at home, when I calculate hardware cost That one can be complex. My home server does mainly private stuff so external bandw

> more appealing than setting it up at home, when I calculate hardware cost That one can be complex. My home server does mainly private stuff so external bandwidth/latency isn't a big issue. Even accounting for cycling drives out¹² and other involuntary maintenance³ the cost of putting the machine together and keeping it running is lower than I'd have spent on the monthly costs of a similarly specced machine with a good provider. Power costs have made me reconsider that a bit in recent months, but hosting providers are putting up prices as they are subject to similar cost increases too so I'll wait a bit and see how that settles before making major changes. ---- [1] I've had a few failures over the years, though thanks to RAID I've never actually lost data due to that⁴. [2] Also for space upgrades, but that is an issue for externally hosted options too. [3] The PSU went fzzzt early last year. [4] Actual (temporary) data loss due to human error has occurred, but backups resolved those occurrences.