It is only time consuming if you let it be: I have been there too, hosting each service in a different OpenVZ jails (before containers were a thing) and doing hyper complex stuff...

Nowadays I simplify to the extreme (refrain to run something I do not need, always using the simplest solution) and it works pretty well for me:https://benou.fr/www/ben/14-years-of-self-hosting.html