Docker Compose is really the easiest way to self-host.

Copy a file, usually provided by the developers of the app you want to run, change some values, run docker compose up and it “just works”.

And I say that as someone who has done everything from distro-provided packages to compiling from source, Nix, podman systemd, and currently running a full-blown multi-node distributed storage Kubernetes cluster at home.

Just use docker compose.