This is a thing I'm very interested in currently. It seems like the last 10 years tech innovation (especially cloud) should have also made it much easier to run

This is a thing I'm very interested in currently. It seems like the last 10 years tech innovation (especially cloud) should have also made it much easier to run - and maintain - things on-premise. Containers, easy to setup SSL, immutable OS's, reverse proxies. Those things coupled with cheap and power efficient workstations/nucs seem like a very good match, at least in theory. Then we have the GDPR laws which - also in theory - should be much more tangible when you know exactly where your data is - and backups can still easily be stored in the cloud as long as they are encrypted. The biggest issue I see is the lack of ECC memory in the machines I mentioned. And then that this idea goes against the business model of the cloud providers, who have a great deal of control over where we are heading and what we are talking about. Still I cannot help but think there's a lot of opportunity in that area which seems rather untapped so far.