Personally, I consider self-hosted services to potentially have a longer lifespan than relying on a commercial product. Unless a company has a robust escrow con

Personally, I consider self-hosted services to potentially have a longer lifespan than relying on a commercial product. Unless a company has a robust escrow contingency, then there's always a possibility that they can go bust and you lose your data and service. Probably more of a concern is vendor lock-in, especially when they decide to change their service levels. Paperless-ngx is a great example of how open source can work around the issue of lack of maintenance (quite a big problem with commercial services if they don't get much profit from them) as IIRC Paperless-NG was a fork from Paperless and now Paperless-NGX is a fork from Paperless-NG. Even if it becomes completely obsolete, I can choose to keep an instance running for as many decades as I wish.