Thanks for your advice and suggestions.
It is a lot easier to run a Hive node at home post HF24.
Snapshots mean that one can have your node running again after a reboot in less than 15 minutes, rather than having to replay for days.
I plan to run a seed / backup witness node as well quite soon, which will allow almost instant changeover in case on main node going offline. I have heaps of quite decent PCs parts lying around from GPU mining days.
I have very good internet with fibre to my desk and look at these download and upload speeds - Way better than most data centres provide for basic customers.
I have a 4G USB modem that can provide backup internet access but I also can access my friendly neighbour's wifi to provide network redundancy.
Power outages are extremely rare but with HF24 you can run a backup witness on a laptop with 8Gb RAM at a pinch and easily with 16Gb RAM. The laptop can get internet access over the 4G Modem if the whole apartment complex was to lose power so that neighbour wifi wasn't available.
I work from home and rarely go anywhere these days with COVID and 5 kids including 3 little ones (actually they are the main threat to be defended against).
So you see, I've considered all the things that a data center provides and realised that I have better everything at home, for free.