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.
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.