> Assuming you're being serious, the advantage of the cloud is scalability, avoiding managing hardware, reliable power, and reliable network.

Or in reality, it's weird transient failures you can't debug, and unexpected bills for some asanine reason. And scalability sure seems like something to avoid until you actually need it (as in the demand on the site is large enough, not that your performance is so bad you can't handle traffic).

Obviously I can be more cavalier with my uptime, as it is a personal server.