Came here to suggest this - I'd have first run the numbers if running on a desirable cost IaaS to see if that was a comfortable middleground. It still amounts t

Came here to suggest this - I'd have first run the numbers if running on a desirable cost IaaS to see if that was a comfortable middleground. It still amounts to self hosting everything yourself, except for compute, networking, storage - the basics (which are deceptively difficult when you account for secure access). And you get nice APIs to automate with still. Don't get me wrong, it might end up being more expensive at a threshold still, but do you really want to do your own... everything? Load balancing, DNS? What a total waste. That said, some hardware companies have APIs to do most of that stuff - a little human runs out to fulfill your request if need be in some cases I think. Still like... much to worry about.