As someone who self hosts in a VPN, I agree with you. :-) I did self host on my own hardware for a long, long time. But convenience won. I had built myself a

As someone who self hosts in a VPN, I agree with you. :-) I did self host on my own hardware for a long, long time. But convenience won. I had built myself a massive beast. A Xeon board I had purchased cheaply for $200 bucks from a friend. I put a water cooler(OEM from Intel) and clocked that sob from 2.6GHz to 4GHz. I quickly clocked it down back to 2.6GHz. It never hit temperatures above 30 again. I installed 24GB RAM, which was the maximum. I installed it in a 3U chassi with the max possible 3.5” hot swap slots. I think 16? I used FreeBSD with ZFS to run a bhyve virtualisation platform. It was a lot of fun.