Those are exactly the kind of third-party services the GP was talking about.
> if you're into managing your own server
One of the core advantages of having a personal server has always been that you can keep it entirely off the internet and run it without any involvement of third-party services. That is not anymore possible. Like, I now need to purchase a domain name and set up infrastructure to fulfill Let's Encrypt's challanges, just so I can serve a page on my LAN.
Those are exactly the kind of third-party services the GP was talking about.
> if you're into managing your own server
One of the core advantages of having a personal server has always been that you can keep it entirely off the internet and run it without any involvement of third-party services. That is not anymore possible. Like, I now need to purchase a domain name and set up infrastructure to fulfill Let's Encrypt's challanges, just so I can serve a page on my LAN.