[ryan29]

> If you have enough skill (or the willingness to learn) and initial investment of time, then the ROI on these DIY projects can be immense.

I self host a ton of stuff. Sometimes I feel like I'm wasting time that could be spent writing code, but, ultimately, I think having good sysadmin and network admin abilities makes a difference in the quality of software development.

Sometimes I see developers that barely seem to know how networks and DNS work.

And the whole argument about time spent is getting weaker. My stuff has gotten to the point where it's a bunch of Docker containers that I could auto-update if I wanted. The hardest part is picking containers that are maintained, but all the official ones are nowadays.