> personally, it fills me with satisfaction to self-host my own infrastructure, my little internet island where I’m root, especially in times of mega corporatio

> personally, it fills me with satisfaction to self-host my own infrastructure, my little internet island where I’m root, especially in times of mega corporations trying (and succeeding) in redefining “the internet” as a portfolio of services only they can offer, with little alternative. Sounds great! Can't argue with that. My feeling is that the real problem isn't a company or companies offering computing services. That has always happened and will always happen. I think the real problem people aren't grappling with is vendor lock-in. Most of the catastrophic anecdotes I read on here and elsewhere are about people who put all their eggs into one basket and did not have any kind of disaster recovery plan. When their provider service went down or even went away due to a merger or whatever, they were left with nothing. And that's really a different problem.