Life Before and After Self-Hosting — How Has It Changed You?

[makerandcoder]

We all started somewhere — maybe frustrated by a subscription paywall, maybe out of curiosity, or maybe just because we like tinkering. But now that we’ve dipped (or plunged) into the world of self-hosting, a lot has changed.

Before: I had 10+ accounts across platforms like Trello, Evernote, Dropbox, etc. Managing passwords was a mess.
After: I’m running Vikunja, Joplin Server, Nextcloud, and Bitwarden via Cloudron. Everything’s in one place, encrypted, and under my control.

Would love to hear your stories — big or small. Whether you're new to this or deep in homelab territory, how has self-hosting changed you?

[james]

I am almost certain this topic is generated by AI or was enhanced by AI since — EM DASH was used, which is mostly done by LLMs.
I am allowing this topic for now since it does actually fit the @off-topic and Cloudron.