Comment by lelanthran

> And even among those who think they can run a server, many probably have wide open security holes they are oblivious to.

This is the big thing, but I also think that modern out-the-box OSes are pretty damn secure these days.

IOW, the amount of knowledge and time needed to maintain my single VPS is a lot less than the knowledge and time you will need to manage your costs using multiple hosted SaaS suppliers for static hosting, web-app hosting, database hosting, repo hosting, etc.