The alternative doesn&#x27;t take into account:<p>- The time and money it takes to find and evaluate providers like Heroku<p>- The risk (and therefore potential cost) if the SaaS solution doesn&#x27;t handle your needs as advertised<p>- Unknown costs that crop up both in paying the provider and handling stuff outside the provider.<p>- Overhead spent managing cloud applications<p>- Potential that local Internet or cloud startup experiences downtime.<p>There&#x27;s a reason dedicated IT people exist and have been successful, and these are just a few of them.