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What's the primary reason people want to host on their own, in your opinion?

I know of two primary reasons, and neither disappears because of smarthosting.

Not the poster, but I'd say that smarthosting hides visibility (when did this get delivered) and costs money.

I would argue that the overhead of setting things up is more pricey then paying for smarthost forwarding, but maybe I'm too practical,