If your stuff can fit on a single server at home, and are comfortable managing it, by all means do! It’s definitely way WAY cheaper, and if budget matters, tha

If your stuff can fit on a single server at home, and are comfortable managing it, by all means do! It’s definitely way WAY cheaper, and if budget matters, that’s great. Nothing wrong with that IMHO. Obviously you can’t 100x overnight, but that’s realistically not gonna happen. And if it does, then you can start to migrate, which probably won’t be that hard, because it’s just impossible to make a single machine anywhere near as complicated as a cloud setup.