@AngryAnt @aras I was talking about IaaS, just the "hardware" part. My experience from running an IaaS myself has been that once you set it up, it just works and doesn't require constant effort.

The software has no marginal cost, so while its cool that someone out there can support themselves financially by facilitating the monitoring and upgrades and stuff, they are gonna be really easy to compete with, and as the market grows, the amount they'll be able to bill should approach zero.

We dont shell out $100s per month to someone who's supposed to update our web browser for us... And the web browser is extremely much more complicated than some dinky little server software like mastodon.