Qu'est-ce qui a conduit des personnes ou des collectifs à faire le choix de s'auto-héberger ?

A few years ago, I encountered a situation with my personnal computer. Overnight, it started mounting my /home as read-only. Everything seems to indicate that my hard drive was about to fail. I was doing regular backups, but not nearly often enough… After making an emergency backup and changing the falty disk, it was time to consider a more reliable solution. The following christmas, my life pa...