One hour a week? That&#x27;s a lot. But I guess it&#x27;s not that you have to do this but that you can and want to spend&#x2F;invest this much time.<p>I run my own email, XMPP, various storage (git), few simple websites and a bunch of minor services. I tinker with those, like, maybe just an hour or two a year. When I feel like I want to tinker with stuff, or I learn that I need to update.<p>Oh, well, and I had a bad day once in ten years when the hardware failed. Luckily, that was just a PSU failure, so besides the outage while I had to get a new one it wasn&#x27;t a big deal - didn&#x27;t even had to touch the backups. And this only applies when you host it on your own hardware.<p>Otherwise, things just work.