What I know is that I have vastly more compute and disk at home than I can afford to run in any cloud. So it seems a shame to not use it - perhaps with a cloud front end and secured connection to the home equipment.

If you guard the machine well via firewall you can simply Let’s Encrypt for SSL via AAAA records to the public IPV6 address of one of your home machines with nginx reverse proxy.

Bitwarden, Paid addy.io, protonmail paid via crypto, privacy.com virtual credit cards, MySudo voip numbers, a jmp.chat number or two.

A 4090 is good enough for running many models. You probably want an A6000 for larger ones. But many models that don’t fit in your VRAM can be scaled down without much loss of effectiveness.

Paying Google loses privacy and control. You are paying a much higher real price than just the few $$.

Holy Shit and WOW! Very nice. So glad to find this. Thank you so much!

Well, YMMV may vary and seems to from the above. But for me self-hosting, especially on home machines, is largely about privacy and reduced cost as well as learning. Google in particular will hover up all data possible and profile you to hell and back selling the results. I used to use Dropbox and a higher price plan to get their [dubious] encryption and so on until I realized I could meet all my needs and more data across multiple machines with a NAS or NFS among other solutions.