Self-hosting services is an easy pitch to anyone who likes to tinker, and getting into it as a hobby has never been easier. Swapping a few recurring bills for a bit of effort spread across time sounds like a good trade, and it is, but it’s not all positive. I’ve been running an a**ortment of self-hosted FOSS tools for over a year, and these are the day-to-day and setup annoyances that nobody warned me about.