People don't believe that I chased after people in the desert.
I rolled a Hummer on a high-speed pursuit in the Chocolate Mountains on the Mexico/US border and was ejected. I got amnesia from the impact, but besides that and some scrapes, I was fine.
You could try learning podman as an intermediate tool. I recommend it for the user-controlled systemd services. There are so many systemd commands to fine tune your containers.
That's great to hear you've made it into a business. I'd been thinking of creating a "biz in a box" side hustle for small businesses. I'm not very business-savvy, though.
I just have it in a pod with the companion app. They auto update and auto restart at night. I've also kept my subscriptions fairly low. Most of the time, that's all I need.
I've been selfhosting for about 4 years now. I wanted to break away from services like Google and find tools I could control on my own hardware.
I went from bare-metal Jellyfin and Nextcloud on my NAS to running the NAS with an NFS share and a Raspberry Pi as a pod orchestrator through quadlets. That little sucker is running pods for:
media (audiobookshelf, kavita, Jellyfin)
Immich
Invidious
Navidrome
Peertube
SearXNG
Servarr suite (flareresolverr/jackett/prowlarr, gluetun/qbittorrent, jellyseerr, lazylibrarian, lidarr, mylar3, radarr, sonarr)
It's also running instances of:
mumble
nginx-proxy-manager
sftpgo
syncthing
I've only opened a few services for family usage, but everything else is VPN-accessible.
Also, no more Nextcloud. Syncthing balances everything out, and I can use sftpgo's webdav option to host my own seedvault backups. Now Google is collecting dust.
I've called one of my kids a jerk and said he was being annoying. I think that's the extent of verbal abuse.
I mean, kids are sponges. Leave them water or piss, they'll soak it all up.