[lazylizard]

in the last 5-10yrs...letsencrypt made ssl much easier..and its possible to host on small,cheap arm devices...

yes no more dyndns free accounts... but u can still use afraid or do cf tunnels maybe?

and in some cases nowadays u can get away with

docker-compose up

and some of those things like minio and mattermost are complaints about the free tier or complaints about self hosting? i can't tell

indeed the easiest "self hosting" ever was when ngrok happened.. u could get ur port listening on the internet without a sign up... by just running a single binary without a flag...

[CuriouslyC]

Mattermost is infamous crippleware and they charge more than slack for a worse product if you pay. Use Zulip.

[ls612]

Nowadays for self hosted DNS the solution I use is Pihole + Tailscale (for the Pihole DNS anywhere) if I could figure it out in one afternoon it is pretty idiot proof.