It's really not that hard to run a server with a handful of applications on it, especially for personal/home use. It seems to me that when developers talk about

It's really not that hard to run a server with a handful of applications on it, especially for personal/home use. It seems to me that when developers talk about this kind of thing they often massively overstate how much work is involved in running a server and keeping it up to date while massively understating the inherent complexities of working with cloud services. I haven't really witnessed the cloud serving as a big time saver in my career. Cloud-centric ops teams seem to be consistently larger than those running applications on regular, shmegular servers (whether rented or their own), if anything. For self-hosting purposes, I'd expect serverless deployments of open-source apps to take more time for most people to figure out and get right than just running the same apps on a VPS, unless you had spent years deploying to the cloud at work and also never learned Linux usage basics. And if you deploy to a only a single cloud VM, you're just using an extremely overpriced VPS at that point.