I too host my sites manually. What happens when your site that's hosted on the VPS gets noticed by a trigger happy skiddie? What happens when they start eating up all your bandwidth? Your VPS provider will be more than happy to null route you.
For the websites you own, you registered your domain with someone right? What happens when that company decides to have some AI decide if you are doing something illegal?
Until today I "never had" any of these issues as well, the main issue here is we have to rely on large companies (or small companies for that matter tbh) to do "the right thing", and we don't have many options to solve it. I got super lucky some folks browsing HN decided to get my post some attention.
> Your VPS provider will be more than happy to null route you.
That is a lot better than deleting your domain and refusing to talk to you. If you need more bandwidth your VPS host will be more than happy to take your money. And short downtimes are not really much of a problem for personal websites and email. Losing your domain name is a much bigger concern.
> For the websites you own, you registered your domain with someone right? What happens when that company decides to have some AI decide if you are doing something illegal?
Has that EVER happened with any registrar that is not also handling other things like hosting or CDN for you? With just the domain all they could base their "AI" on would be the domain itself unless they go actively prodding third-party servers.
I’m trying to understand the point of this anecdote. Plenty of people who use Cloudflare could post the same comment. And there are plenty of self hosting horror stories involving smaller solutions.
On the topic of hosting email specifically, I thought it was pretty universally accepted as a tricky prospect. It’s possible to get right, yes, but tricky nonetheless.
For the websites you own, you registered your domain with someone right? What happens when that company decides to have some AI decide if you are doing something illegal?
Until today I "never had" any of these issues as well, the main issue here is we have to rely on large companies (or small companies for that matter tbh) to do "the right thing", and we don't have many options to solve it. I got super lucky some folks browsing HN decided to get my post some attention.