i suspect those influencers telling people to “rent a VPS and move your agents to cloud” are getting a commission helping sell VPS i’m using a mac mini which i bought at $2500 and i’m often running it near full capacity building various ios and mac apps if i rent a VPS instead, it cost about $300/month for a similar spec. with just 9 months, the rent would have exceeded the full price let’s say i decide to keep going for 5 years, total VPS cost would be $18k and that’s for just running 1 machine for 5 years. at the end i own nothing if i invest that $18k to buy my own hardware instead, i could have got 7 mac minis so 7x more compute capacity, and they would be mine forever if you are considering a long term setup, i can’t think of any good reason to be renting VPS. own your hardware - my desk is my cloud