no
no
This is like asking why do you cook your own food at home.
I self host because I know what I am getting, I can control the price I want to pay, and I don’t really need to involve other people in my life.
next up… docker containers start reporting user data
Never buy into a platform, they tend to waste a lot of my time on changing things to upgrade versions that have no point except to change the whole platform, and the things you like to use get deprecated. Or they never get to where you want to be. Your vision is not the maintainers vision. Learn to roll your own…everything.
Wow that is a lot of reading, which means you did a lot of work researching, planning, testing and writing. Thank you for publishing this.
A cursory look seems like the software you are using could benefit from a more powerful machine. I know power is a concern for some, but for me it is irritating waiting around for things to load. A Dell Optiplex 7070 SFF i7-9700 @ 3.00GHz 16GB RAM 256GB SSD is only $56 on ebay and would be significantly faster than an orange pi. Thoughts?
Is self hosted really meant for business? Do you mean like a coffee shop environment that people can spin up servers for themselves or what is the point? All the apps you pointed out work fine for selfhosted home and lanparty environments Most people that host servers want os compatibility and hardware speed. Docker isn’t really known for its Windows compatibility that a lot of game servers need. Linux servers are more popular but a lot of the games people play have their servers on lockdown so this is really a niche market anymore.
Can I install Steam on it?
100g in the mountains? Where is this mythical place?