Self-hosting sounds great in theory, and running your own password manager, blocking ads across your entire network, and keeping your data on hardware you own instead of someone else’s server are all genuinely nice benefits of it. The problem is that actually doing it usually means a lot of work, like maintaining Docker Compose files, understanding basic networking, setting up reverse proxies, and debugging things late at night on a week day when something inevitably breaks. For a lot of people, that’s where the enthusiasm dies, and I totally get it.