I think with the advent of agents, self-hosting has become a lot easier. For example, I self-host an XMPP server, and in the past there were error cases where you could spend days finding out what was wrong.
A few weeks ago, I had trouble with audio and video calls. Sometimes they worked; sometimes they did not. So I gave an agent access to my phone via ADB and access to the server logs, and within 30 minutes the problem was clear, and the fix was deployed.
Background: During the last migration, I forgot to enable STUN/TURN discovery, and therefore the client did not find it and could not connect when both were behind NATs. And you don't have to trust those agents blindly; you can use it as a learning opportunity and understand everything before you do anything or ask questions.
A few weeks ago, I had trouble with audio and video calls. Sometimes they worked; sometimes they did not. So I gave an agent access to my phone via ADB and access to the server logs, and within 30 minutes the problem was clear, and the fix was deployed.
Background: During the last migration, I forgot to enable STUN/TURN discovery, and therefore the client did not find it and could not connect when both were behind NATs. And you don't have to trust those agents blindly; you can use it as a learning opportunity and understand everything before you do anything or ask questions.