Self-Hosting Is a Lie. You’re Just Renting From Big Tech for Free.
Modern self-hosting isn’t about running your own servers. It’s about orchestrating free-tier cloud services from Big Tech — trading a single vendor lock-in for a multi-point failure cascade. This article breaks down the real cost of building a ‘self-hosted’ analytics stack with Umami, Cloudflare, Fly, and Supabase, and why the fragility might actually be the feature.