Blog post: my thoughts on depending on third-party commercial services to help with home-hosting / self-hosting.
https://olivierforget.net/blog/2025/self-hosting-third-party-services/
I try to distill the characteristics of services that don't defeat the purpose of home-hosting. I'm convinced broad use of home servers won't happen without the help of external services, so it's good to think about what makes them good/bad.