- Lower upfront costs and quicker to set up as you don't have to buy the hardware
- Don't have hardware taking up space in your home
- Flexibility of being able to scale up or down your specs (or get rid of the VPS entirely) at the click of a button
- Don't have to open your home network to the internet
- Better uptime (not your job to fix outages)
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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