If you&#x27;re the sort of person for whom cloud hosting works, that will work for you. I personally like things that run (a) when the net is off and (b) if the vendor decides they don&#x27;t like me, but I accept that I&#x27;m a dinosaur.<p>But the main reason for wanting things local, for me, is that the sole reason I have a Windows VM is to plug various devices into it for which there&#x27;s no software for OS X or Linux. Yes, there are hacky methods for some USB use cases, but I don&#x27;t think having the logic controlling my laser cutter executing 12 hops away is going to go so well.