Reading through these comments I'm not sure everyone is on the same page as to what "Cloud" actually is.

In both the Twitter thread and the HN comments people seem to think VPS in no longer "cloud". IMO you are not "off the cloud" unless you own the hardware. A VPS is not that much different than an EC2 instance.

So in reality you just converted from cattle to pets[1] while just being on a different type of cloud.

And once you get into actual colocation you have to buy the hardware, have redundancy, and the colocation facility is probably charging you quite a bit (and perhaps even extra for bandwidth and power consumption).

[1] "cattle" refers to a disposable and easily replaceable resource, like virtual machines or containers, while "pets" are unique, carefully tended servers that are individually managed and not easily replaceable.