[daitangio]

Self-hosting is becoming a freedom factor in my humble opinion. I have an hard time hosting my email server, it was not so diffcult 10 years ago and was trivial 20 years ago.

The reason is the anti-spam rules and the fact that Google, Microsoft and so on are creating a iron trust to each other, and the little server outside are marked spam by default.

Lets encrypt avoided a similar destiny to https connections, but the risk is always out of the window. I mean, https was becoming "pay-us-to-publish a web server, or our browser will mark you as unsafe and do not display it".

I think it is time also to self-host private free chats and possibly other services lik DDoS services.