Yeah I tried self hosting everything. Getting it actually running is the easiest part. Its the maintenance, backups, and security that are 90% of the job. You can get it working pretty easily and forget about it and it will run for a while until something goes wrong or it needs to be upgraded.

Now I'd rather leave hosting to a someone dedicated to it who has internalized the latest state of things for all the relevant bits of software and is constantly keeping this knowledge in their brain. Set and forget self hosting can't work in the current environment we have where things require constant security updates and complex security hardening.