[empressplay]

On-premming your Internet services just seems like an exercise in self-flagellation.

Unless you have a heavy-duty pipe to your prem you're just risking all kinds of headaches, and you're going to have to put your stuff behind Cloudflare anyway and if you're doing that why not use a VPS?

It's just not practical for someone to run a little blog or app that way.

[nulbyte]

It's not that much headache, and this isn't necessarily about public-facing sites and apps.

Take file storage: Some folks find Google Drive and similar services unpalatable because they can and will scan your content. Setting up Nextcloud or even just using file sharing built into a consumer router is pretty easy.

You don't need to rely on Cloudflare, either. Some routers come with VPN functionality or can have it added.

The self-hosting most people talk about when they talk about self-hosting is very practical.

[adastra22]

I don’t think you understand what on-premises means.

[trueismywork]

Some of us have have LAN for our offices and TBs of data.