Nice to know @dwinblood, the issue is, amazon and microsoft have very resilient servers, so it makes sense that most nodes would be hosted therein, but what other providers are available? I personally do not know any other provider, though to ne fair im not a technical person.

Oh I totally GET why they do it. AWS is easy to use and for simple stuff it is free to use and it can be setup to quickly scale to need.

I totally understand that. My point was simply to consider that if all of our servers end up on AZURE or AWS then technically we are not vulnerable as long as Amazon and Microsoft leave us alone. :) If enough politics and corporate corruption occurred then such servers would be vulnerable.

From a scalability and ease of use perspective though they are hard to beat.

I have a business class internet and static IP at my house if I ever do it that's where I'd start and if I need to scale I'd likely scale into a data center that I really like. Though I'm only toying with that idea at the moment. I may decide to go that route because people have asked me, I hadn't started considering it until then.