I agree with Christian about pretty much everything here. We self-host for multiple reasons, and we don't necessarily need others to necessarily understand our

I agree with Christian about pretty much everything here. We self-host for multiple reasons, and we don't necessarily need others to necessarily understand our rationale, although that'd be nice. For me, one thing that stands out as something driving the desire to self-host everything is that large corporations, given enough time, invariably let us down. Christian's experience with Contabo illustrates the one game that I will do any amount of work to avoid: people who pretend to know what they're talking about but who really only waste our time in hopes to put off dealing with an issue until someone else actually fixes it. The one place where I can't avoid this truly stupid game is with getting and maintaining Internet for my clients. You're not paying for "enterprise", with "enterprise" pricing of $750 a month for 200 Mbps? Then tough cookies - you'll get the same junk we force on our residential customers, and you'll never, ever be able to talk to a human who has any clue what you're talking about, but you'll be able to talk to plenty who'll pretend to know and will waste hours of your time. The more time they waste of mine, the more energy I'll expend looking for ways to subvert or replace them, until I eventually rely on corporations for the absolute minimum possible.