Why I self-host everything: on sovereignty, agency and control
For a long time, the cloud was just the water I swam in. I provisioned managed Kubernetes, clicked through the console, pasted a Terraform module someone else wrote, and shipped. It worked. Billing landed every month, the dashboards stayed green, and I never once asked what was actually running underneath. I trusted it the way you trust a lift in a building. You press the button and the doors open. ...