Where "10x less money" is still less than the cost of a single developer. If this needs any extra work then it's just been busy work and change for the sake of it.
I'm all for monoliths and hosted solutions, but let's not pretend that saving $1k / month is going to make or break most businesses.
What OP appears to have done is take on risk to save costs.
Another thing is, even when the cloud goes down, the story is "Global outages caused by Azure/AWS/GCloud/etc going down", and people are generally understanding.
If you have an outage of your machine, the story is "<Your Company> services down".
I'm all for monoliths and hosted solutions, but let's not pretend that saving $1k / month is going to make or break most businesses.
What OP appears to have done is take on risk to save costs.
Another thing is, even when the cloud goes down, the story is "Global outages caused by Azure/AWS/GCloud/etc going down", and people are generally understanding.
If you have an outage of your machine, the story is "<Your Company> services down".