&gt; There isn&#x27;t anything inherent in running your own hardware that requires that to be a major burden.<p>Sure there is. Climate control, redundancy&#x2F;backups, and power consumption&#x2F;reliability, to name a few, are all concerns that we get to delegate to &quot;the cloud,&quot; that are 100% &quot;inherent in running your own hardware.&quot;<p>I applaud your usability argument, but there are most certainly inherent burdens to running your own hardware that don&#x27;t exist for cloud services.