* Electricity costs for networking/compute hardware often equal VPS costs
* Massive single points of failure WRT power, compute, networking
* ISPs don't like when people run their businesses over consumer networks and will retaliate (forced to change to business plan, account terminated, etc)
* Vastly increased overhead managing the full infra stack (power, HVAC, networking, compute, firmware, OS, etc)
* Massively increased security liability (your site goes viral and now Hacker News and Reddit are sending traffic to your house, on the same network where your personal laptop with your CC info saved on it lives)
XaaP services abstract away so very many of these concerns for prices that oftentimes are below what you pay for the electricity to run your own infrastructure.
* Electricity costs for networking/compute hardware often equal VPS costs
* Massive single points of failure WRT power, compute, networking
* ISPs don't like when people run their businesses over consumer networks and will retaliate (forced to change to business plan, account terminated, etc)
* Vastly increased overhead managing the full infra stack (power, HVAC, networking, compute, firmware, OS, etc)
* Massively increased security liability (your site goes viral and now Hacker News and Reddit are sending traffic to your house, on the same network where your personal laptop with your CC info saved on it lives)
XaaP services abstract away so very many of these concerns for prices that oftentimes are below what you pay for the electricity to run your own infrastructure.