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torginus 4 days ago

I'd say self-hosting on the verge of becoming ubiquitous and accepted.

The whole sales pitch of cloud providers is that instaling and maintaining a server is just too hard for the average Joe.

Thing is the average Joe already has at least 2 dedicated servers in their home - their router and their IoT hub. Both are designed to be servers, and talk to third party endpoints over the internet.

While I'm not crazy about IoT, I think we are reaching the point where most people have something digital in their house that makes sense to be networked.

And thanks to IoT stuff, running and managing servers has become a certified Dad activity, like woodworking and home improvement.

I know multiple dads, who had no prior exposure to IT, who have set up rather complex Raspberry Pi based home automation systems, managing all the complexity of setting up and running a server at home.

I think the skills and interest are proliferating, and it's no longer going to be accepted wisdom to just rely on some nebuluous remote cloud provider, esp for simple stuff.