richmondez

I don’t think it is that is more polished, it’s just you pay for them to do the stuff you need to do yourself with reverse proxying, opening ports, securing stuff. This is only an issue if you are sharing outside your network of course.

Why bother self hosting at all then? Paying somone else to do it for you and the deal constantly getting altered is pretty what you signed up for.

That’s because you had somone elses servers doing that part for you.

Fully aware and autonomous? Sounds like AI talk to me…

It’s a donation that is deceptively framed in my opinion, bit of a dark pattern, but the product is fully open source so most give it a pass.

I’ve not looked into it but presumably it’s because whatever web server framework they are using might not be as bug free and battle tested as dedicated web server application like nginx so by limiting the actual web servers exposure you are limiting the attack surface.

Worse they often report issues that affect them but still don’t commit resources to resolving those issues.