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Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host
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I can add to the voices here that have this as one big consideration. With some second-hand hardware, it's very cheap to set up almost unlimited cloud space for personal use.
That, and a lot of questions about ease of use too, but I answered them neutral because some are bears to set up, others are one click. Idk it depends.
And unless you are expecting significant traffic, you can use an old Core2Quad with 2GB RAM and it will work just fine.