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Cost, experience and for the paranoid (right or not) control.

The biggest downside is initial cost in time, effort and cash compared to typing in a credit card.

Ok other downsides include lack of power redundancy and decent networking which are more common in data-centers.

Other side of this is, why buy 8xa100 for that project to stick them on eBay to recoup cost when you can rent them?

Agreed - Effort/Cost/Time is what always nips my self-host projects out of the gate. I start working down the recursive thought experiment of everything I "need" to get an email server working (for example) and bail when I see the list.

Convincing the family to buy in is hard too because (as you put) I can't promise the same level of redundancy/service guarantees.

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