| Articles like this never really cover the downsides of self-hosted setups, and the real time, effort, and costs that'll go into it. Statements like this are so disingenuous: "Monitor Your Services:
Set up monitoring to keep track of your server's health and performance:
Use tools like Prometheus and Grafana for detailed monitoring
Set up alerts to notify you of any issues" That reads like it'll take 5 minutes, but requires learning PromQL, spinning up multiple services, which you then also have to maintain and support, and come with all their own issues. "Full control over files, no storage limits except hardware" This is technically true, but for the average user, compared to the vast and free data in Google Drive is just not really valid. Then get into the issues of maintaining drive arrays for redundancy, back-ups, IO performance, etc. Everything that says "enhanced security" but you're asking someone with no experience in self-hosting to get security right. That's a really big ask. I don't want to keep going on dissing the article, which is a good attempt at summarizing where the industry/hobby is now. I love self-hosting things at home, I've learnt a lot, and it lets me geek out. But, I'd contend that almost every sentence in that article is flawed somehow. |