Things I Stopped Self-Hosting (And Why Cloud Won in My Home Lab)

In this video, I share the real-world services I stopped self-hosting in my home lab and we look at why cloud or managed solutions ultimately made more sense for me for certain services in particular. For years, my default answer was to self-host everything, and while that mindset taught me a ton about networking, DNS, storage, security, and virtualization, I eventually realized that not every service is worth the operational overhead. I walk through why I moved away from self-hosted email, public DNS, remote access gateways, push notifications, and password managers, and how stress, time, and…