I don't like renting anything, but more specifically the feeling of every question or mistake, or creative experience directly costing money. I know, in the past, i've had good luck with hardware, assuming the sysadmin (me) time is free.

Tell me more about future you? Are you talking for customer facing, private usage, or altogether personal? I assume with your connection's you'd have access to better pricing for renting the compute or am i assuming too much?