I would say even easier on prem as you don't need to wade 15 layers deep to do anything. Since I have moved to hosting my own stuff at my house, I have learned that connecting a monitor and keyboard to a 'sever' is awesome for productivity. I know where everything is, its fast as hell, and everything is locked down. Monitoring temps, adjusting and configuring hardware is just better in every imaginable way. Need more RAM, Storage, Compute? Slap those puppies in there and send it.

For home gamers like myself, it's has become a no brainer with advances in tunneling, docker, and cheap prices on Ebay.