Let’s say you’re VM home lab server has reliable backups & snapshots setup.

You treat your PC, phone, tablet as expendable devices. Nothing saved locally, nothing backed up. If your one of your client devices does, they are easily replaced. Because all important data is on your server. Single point of capture, so everything is backed up and safe.

If you’re in that scenario. You’d want to run everything off your home server.

Rackspace gets blacklisted exactly twice a year, like clockwork. So how’s it any worse?