Self-hosting Jira is running a big Java application that has its own directory structure and talks to a Postgres database. It really isn't hard. Even upgrades a

Self-hosting Jira is running a big Java application that has its own directory structure and talks to a Postgres database. It really isn't hard. Even upgrades are automated using shell scripts, although you do need to manually replace some configuration files afterwords for some damn reason. Configuring Jira is complicated, but that's the same regardless of whether you self-host.