[goodpoint]

Deploying services is 1% of the work. Maintaining them, fixing bugs and bottlenecks is the real works.

And you cannot do when you deploy tools worth millions of lines of code.

Complexity matters. Those popular products make sense only if you have a 20 engineers is your team or you don't care about reliability.

[Gigachad]

This is downvoted but I think it is true, self hosted services don't get nearly as much love as they need. It takes a huge amount of effort, monitoring, and knowledge on the specific tools to be able to host them securely and detect intrusions. I attempted self hosting for years but decided it ultimately wasn't worth it and that I have very little ability to prevent against attacks or detect that they had happened.

[goodpoint]

Not my point. Self-host plenty of stuff but choose *simple* tools, not behemots.

Also it's important to use software packaged in distros like Debian in order to receive security updates for many years.

[spaniard89277]

Maybe they want to practice. I installed proxmox and I'm pretty much set up, but my needs are pretty huble, just a couple of VMs and maybe containers in the near future.