I think some of you younger folks really don't know what the Internet was like 20 years ago.Shit was up and down all the time.

I worked on a project back in 2008 where I had to physically haul hardware from Houston to Dallas ahead of Hurricane Ike just to keep a second rate version of a website running until we got power back at the original office. Latency at the new location was so bad that we were scrambling to reinvent the website in real time to try and improve performance. We ended up losing the client. They ended up going bankrupt. An absolute nightmare.

Getting screamed at by clients. Working 14 hour days in a cramped server room on something way outside my scope.

Would have absolutely killed for something as clean and reliable as AWS. Not like it didn't even exist back then. But we self-hosted because it was cheaper.