Something that would be interesting to compare and contrast is actually using your own hardware to host the service(s). Servers are super-reliable these days, i

Something that would be interesting to compare and contrast is actually using your own hardware to host the service(s). Servers are super-reliable these days, it doesn't feel like a huge step from the VPS approach to simply have a bunch of them. At least one tradeoff is that you'd have to be physically in a location with adequate bandwidth / latency but for various use cases it might be very cost effective during some phase of the startup. I wonder also how the AI induced focus on specialized hardware might change the calculus