I’ve always been conservative about what kind of services I host because it takes time to get them set up. For example, there’s no reason for me to set up music streaming when I only ever listen to music on my phone and all my music files are already on my phone. On the other hand, it’s a good learning opportunity to set stuff up and have to fix it when it breaks. What do you think?
My usage varies from service to service, but unless I’ve either found a replacement or completely stopped using it, I keep all of them (including the ones I never really use) ready to go, maybe with the container stopped. So far I’ve only removed 2 services, both because there were better alternatives for me.
If I see something interesting, I’ll note it and try to get it up later. Sometimes the service keeps spitting out errors, in which case I’ll just attempt again later if I still find the service to be worthy.