Except with modern tooling it's not a huge task anymore to run these services.
Cost wise on the right hardware it is very cheap to run, add the privacy/personal control aspect it's no wonder so many people do it.
Cost wise on the right hardware it is very cheap to run, add the privacy/personal control aspect it's no wonder so many people do it.
Using a VPS entirely removes the hardware aspect, but it also mostly defeats the point of self hosting.
https://ente.com is open source, and self hosted, and end to end encrypted.