That's not self-hosting. That's paying a cloud provider for a lot of services I don't need. To me, self-hosting means I can (theoretically) run everything I ne

That's not self-hosting. That's paying a cloud provider for a lot of services I don't need. To me, self-hosting means I can (theoretically) run everything I need, on my bare-metal -- a cloud provider or cloud service (eg, RDS) then becomes a choice, not a requirement. Suppose you swapped out every piece with a free, local one -- it'd still have the problem of being way overdesigned for what I'd need. Even if the UI looks decent.