Depending on Third Party Services When Self-Hosting

In our drive to take control of our web presence by self-hosting our services from home, it seems contradictory to depend on 3rd party services to make it all work. Companies like Mailgun , Tailscale , Cloudflare , Netlify , NextDNS , Linode , AWS , ngrok , and many more offer compelling solutions to the endless challenges of self-hosting. But does using them mean we are fooling ourselves about…