I am comfortable re-building my self hosting setup from scratch/backup. I enjoy the sense of agency being able to fix something myself vs wait for a cloud servi

I am comfortable re-building my self hosting setup from scratch/backup. I enjoy the sense of agency being able to fix something myself vs wait for a cloud service to return. As I rely on my self hosted setups more, I also build in the appropriate amount of high availability features required. You will learn a TON of skills that are sideways related to software engineering. It's very empowering to be nearly entirely self sufficient with your profession. I can write/test/deploy software (ie pay the bills) and never have some critical service or infrastructure carpet pulled out from underneath you(ie dockerhub,github) and prevent you from doing your work. This is such a niche attitude/market but it has been incredible to see the surge of self-hosted applications/services over the last 5 years. It is also relatively easy these days with modern ci/cd tools to have a "portable" enough stack that in the event of an emergency you could purchase a few linode instances and be migrated to a vps environment in an afternoon.