It all boils down to trust in the end. Trust they don’t keep records, trust they don’t share your info, trust the canary is real, … There’s always someone else you have to trust.

You want one with a canary on their website

You needed terminators on the last pc of the network, unless it was configured as a ring.

I run Gemma4 12B on my RX9070 XT. it’s not permanently on, I just turn it on when I want to use it. Access it through a browser. Does what I want out of it. Nothing “agentic”.

What maintenance do you mean? run OS updates and pay the vps bill. that’s true for any self hosted application. which specific maintenance are you referring to?

Perhaps Nullsoft SHOUTcast

Been running one for many years, mostly issue-free. Had to request whitelists way in the beginning, but things turned out ok.

Check out this super great guide. https://workaround.org/ispmail-trixie

“can’t access this thing, server must be down”