I have no problem with the idea of self-hosting, there’s a time and place for it.

What I have an issue with is proclaiming the idea of getting away from “Big Tech” under the banner of “Buck the Billionaires. Create Your Own Internet Services.” and jumping into a corporate VPS without any self awareness around the reality of that, let alone a hint, nevermind a deeper discussion, around the far reaching implications, such as legality, payments, administration, outages, getting hacked and myriad other “would have been good to know before I jumped”-scenarios.

Is paying for a VPS part of self-hosting, sure, for some, but is it “Buck the Billionaires” … hardly.

Is the article good for promoting self-hosting … I would argue … not.