You can also pick and choose how far you go with self management. To me, as much fun as it is, I can’t be bothered to run the physical server in my home(not because I can’t, but because I won’t). That’s why my solution is to lease a bare metal server on Hetzner, pay EUR 38/month and host all my personal projects on it. This way I get a reliable network and operation for my server and I still hold reasonable control over my data and what I run.