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tomc1985

Every step here is illustrated as a worst-case scenario, and omitting the time gaps between issues where the system is operational where you are receiving value from it.

Yes self-hosting is a PITA. Yes things will go down. Yes it takes time to learn.

But owning the means of your production? Priceless.

We need to stop teaching people to be cyber-peasants, sharecropping a land they'll never own.

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I'm looking at worst cases cause they're really likely to hit you not when you have enough time to tinker and solve it, but when you have other more important things to do.

I self-host a lot, including a smart home setup that is not reliant on the cloud, but in the end looking back how much time I've sunk into this and how often it's down due to _my_ mistakes I don't really think it was worth it.

Why shouldn’t you look at the worst case scenario? Using a hosted service is valuable too, except in its worst case where they kick you off of it.

Because it is not representative of every experience, and without labelling it as such the story given above is mere FUD

We should be encouraging self-hosting for those with the risk-tolerance to do so

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