Home Server or Cloud? Build, buy, or host?

In my opinion, cloud computing is the present and future of business

Actually it's depends on what you will run, as my server is basically a nas with pihole, it's much more cheaper to have it locally than on the cloud.

What is the difference between a home server and a cloud?

I have a Dell Server and I connect remotely to it. I want to connect a cloud to it. Do I have to use one of these cloudbase website or can I set up my own?

This was a fantastic video and I agree with you on the hybrid approach. I run a few home lab servers but I also consume Azure IAAS and PAAS. Also I would suggest looking into nested virtualization for example one of my servers is a dual E5-2650 v2 with 256 gigs of ram and tons of flash storage. I do lots of nested virtualization configs with ESXI. You are also correct in regards to refreshing hardware which is something I plan on doing over the next year.

I appreciate your videos and how you're not yelling or pushing loud messages down our throat. Keep up the great work!

I don't recommend it but for those of us with really old, like Dell r610 servers for example, if it's possible to get working a video for installing ESXi 8.0 on them would be awesome.

Well. As they say… “The cloud is still a rack somewhere”. Great video btw.

I use Hetzner for my cloud instances, HUGE amounts of CPU and RAM for less than the monthly cost of running my Dell PowerEdge R710.

To HELL with the "cloud."

Why not do it like me and build a private cloud at home XD /sarcasm: off (not a good idea... OpenStack @home is a sinkhole)

Home servers really start making sense when you want to host a bunch of web apps, especially if they are side projects that don't get much traffic or make money. Realistically, an app that gets 10 visitors per day needs barely any compute to run. Cloud databases in particular are what pushed me to build my server. And these days we increasingly need GPUs to run AI models, and that's where cloud costs become astronomical.

Hi all, and what’s about nested environnements with a nuc as example ? Did you do avideo about that already ?
Thank you