I had a setup that worked well for years. And therein lies the problem: I want to do things the same way, but various companies keep pulling rugs from under my feet. So over the past few months, I basically had to rebuild everything from scratch, this time on my own hardware.
If you spend any time around places where folks talk about self-hosting, you've probably seen at least two things in abundance: screenshots of server dashboards, and screenshots of groups of cool-looking