It depends on what resources you have on hand obviously, but perhaps more it will depend on resource usage. There is little point buying a rack and having it id

It depends on what resources you have on hand obviously, but perhaps more it will depend on resource usage. There is little point buying a rack and having it idle. If you have very bursty workloads then scaling pays off. If you run your rick nice and warm even over nights and weekends then it's more economic to have self hosted I imagine.