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If the average Web engineer's salary capable of running a site like this is ~$180,000, then a $30,000 difference in cost is only about 2 months salary. Learning and dealing with a new hosting environment can easily exceed that.
Maybe, maybe that hosting provider doesn't exist in the long term, maybe that hosting provider crashes more often or makes sudden api changes and causes more ongoing work and headaches that chew up more time and salary, maybe you end up needing a more complex over the top service that they don't offer and need to go to AWS / Azure anyways.
What's that? Taxes? And no way do I agree with this. $30k is a lot, no matter how much you make. Learning a new environment is not THAT hard.
It is, but learning a new environment, then dealing with any down the line troubleshooting or instability can easily add up to $30,000 if you actually track where salaried employees time is going.