It's not for everyone and sometimes you just don't feel like maintaining it anymore. I get that. I still like my privacy a lot more than the pain/complexity that can come with self-hosting some things. Archive: https://archive.today/vzkwh From the post: >>I think I’m done trying to self-host things for now. I have lots of small (and not so small) apps that I’d like to self-host, especially because many of the apps you use nowadays have shifted from being something you download and install to something you need to host somewhere. Either in some company cloud, where you pay a subscription fee, or something free and open source. And there are lots of things like that I’d like to host. But every time I plan for that, it never quite works out. The main reason? Time. I already spend the entire week in front of a computer doing computer things. I love that, it pays the bills, and I consider myself extremely lucky that I got to work with something that I love so much.