"If a 13 year old can figure out port forwarding and DNS I’m fairly certain you can."
Go ahead and take a poll of people who would want to do that, even after understanding it's 'relatively easy'.
I'm in tech and the thought of having to maintain my own infra makes me recoil.
You can build your own house, fix your own car, do your own plumbing, run your own servers if you want, but if you do, it's most likely for some niche reason, not because it's convenient and most people probably just don't want to go with this approach.
Go ahead and take a poll of people who would want to do that, even after understanding it's 'relatively easy'.
I'm in tech and the thought of having to maintain my own infra makes me recoil.
You can build your own house, fix your own car, do your own plumbing, run your own servers if you want, but if you do, it's most likely for some niche reason, not because it's convenient and most people probably just don't want to go with this approach.