stupid question I know but let me explain. I self host only because I love learning random things and this was just another thing that I convinced myself I needed to learn, not out of necessity. I am hosting an *arr media system right now but that is pretty much the only thing I actually need, I have unlimited google photos so I don’t need Immich, I am happy with bitwarden so I don’t need vaultwarden, don’t need home assistant, nextcloud, bookstack etc so what I should I self host? throw any idea you have at me.
Self hosting is en mostly about keeping control of your data, paying capex instead of opex and having something to play/learn with. If you don’t need any of those you probably don’t wanna self host tbf.
Lots of people here have quite a large media collection and storage costs can addup pretty quick in opex. I basically have 15TB of media in Jellyfin so just imagine the cost of that in public cloud.