I have arrived to the conclusion that nowadays, with the amount of information and cheap HW at our disposal not doing it yourself is illogical. I run a couple of them for different purposes.

A VPS is like having your corn in a CEX, just that in this case is your data.

Be uncesorablr and truly free, no middle man, no one to tell you, "your account have been canceled" with no explanation...And all of them have thag written in their policy.