Not a business here, though using certain self hosted tools has paid off in work as well.
So as a hobbyist, when you have a handful of services you are self hosting, adding another one makes more sense.
And running 5+ different services is probably cheaper in the long term.
If you have the skills, initial setup takes minutes. If you lack the skills, it is a good idea to invest your time into learning those skills, they are very handy if you work in the software development field. It certainly has become very useful at work for me.
For me personally updates, backups, restores and deployments of containers are mostly automated and on average I don't spend more than an hour per month to maintain all of the already running services.
Also I don't see the time as being wasted, since I enjoy doing it. Watching TV or playing video games is probably worse and I still do that as well, same as many other people.
So as a hobbyist, when you have a handful of services you are self hosting, adding another one makes more sense.
And running 5+ different services is probably cheaper in the long term.
If you have the skills, initial setup takes minutes. If you lack the skills, it is a good idea to invest your time into learning those skills, they are very handy if you work in the software development field. It certainly has become very useful at work for me.
For me personally updates, backups, restores and deployments of containers are mostly automated and on average I don't spend more than an hour per month to maintain all of the already running services.
Also I don't see the time as being wasted, since I enjoy doing it. Watching TV or playing video games is probably worse and I still do that as well, same as many other people.