I have been quietly moving small services off a rented VPS and back onto the box in the cupboard. Nothing dramatic, no manifesto, just a slow recognition that I was paying a monthly fee for things that idle at three percent CPU and serve a handful of requests a day.
The maths was never really about money, though the money is nice. It was about latency to my own data and the faint irritation of not owning the thing I depend on. A bookmarks service, a feed reader, a couple of webhooks: none of it needs to live somewhere I can't physically reach. When the VPS provider had a network blip in July I couldn't get to my own notes, and that stung more than it should have.
So now it runs on a refurbished mini PC pulling about eight watts at idle, behind a tunnel so I don't have to expose anything to the open internet. Backups go off-site to cheap object storage, because owning the hardware is no excuse for losing the data on it. The cupboard is warmer than it was. That is the only real downside.
It isn't for everything. The things that genuinely need uptime stay where someone else worries about the power and the cooling. But the long tail of personal services? Home suits them fine.