A dev spun up a full self-hosted cloud on a refit workstation—Immich, Calibre-web, Audiobookshelf, and Jellyfin all running smoothly on Proxmox, Docker, and Tailscale. Custom NAS, the works.

Cool demo. But it hits a wall: self-hosting’s fine for hobbyists, not scaling. One person can’t out-infra Google.

The takeaway? We don’t just need better solo setups—we need shared, open infrastructure the internet can actually rely on.

System shift: The real momentum’s in community-owned, privacy-first cloud tooling. Beyond the solo server in your closet.