Reminder of one of the risks of self-hosting: maintainability of things when you're not around. Do you have a 'continuity plan' for someone else to run things if you're hosting for people in addition to yourself?
Unless your friends/family have access to someone else as technical as you, things may start breaking. There was a story/discussion on this recently on HN, "Dad died in 2022. Since 2023, things he selfhosted have slowly begun breaking":
Certainly there are risks for cloud-based services (expiring credit card), but if you set aside your credentials in a safe place (e.g., paper envelope) then most folks can probably keep things going around if you're not around.
> maintainability of things when you're not around
The real issue, which is only getting worse.
The guy from Reddit says: “The operating system of either server. They're probably Macs, but more than that I don't know ... EDIT: Based on comments, probably Linux”.
↑ And that's the very basics. Modern apps tend to get “fancier” each year and the underlying stack of technologies, programming languages, and dependencies grows beyond reasonable.
E.g. one can probably find a Linux admin, a PHP or Python developer within their circle, but something beyond that is way less common. So the options are either hiring some stranger or ditching the setup (and data) entirely.
Unless your friends/family have access to someone else as technical as you, things may start breaking. There was a story/discussion on this recently on HN, "Dad died in 2022. Since 2023, things he selfhosted have slowly begun breaking":
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39526863
Certainly there are risks for cloud-based services (expiring credit card), but if you set aside your credentials in a safe place (e.g., paper envelope) then most folks can probably keep things going around if you're not around.