I appreciate the hard work that goes into poal and vid8. I'm on my own journey into self hosting. I run a few websites myself and recently discovered how consolidated hosting became. I therefore decided to build out my own data center. Keep in mind when I say data center, I'm talking about a single 10U rack containing everything I need. All I need is a single RJ45 connection and 110 volt line. The servers is a cluster of Raspberry Pis. Before you laugh hysterically, the goal is to build a simple, cheap, self contained web server cluster. So far, the performance is quite good. When I run bench marks with small loads, I'm getting sub second page loads. The software architecture is to use one Pi as a reverse proxy using Apache. Amazingly enough, I discovered Apache has built in reverse proxy, load balancing, fail over and many other features I had never known because I only cared about its one feature of serving web pages. I'm now going through the dance of configuring it to use http2. I had no idea it was capable of that either. The real challenge here is to ensure http2 is supported from the reverse proxy all the way to the source. I think once I have http2 working all the way through the chain, the performance will improve more. In short, I realize there is a lot to building a fast website and also making it reliable. Raspberry Pis are not high performance servers but they are cheap, use only 3 watts or less and very capable of serving multiple websites over a single gigabit connection.