This is why we prefer to buy physical media, getting a digital with it is nice, but physical is key.
It wasn't even me was pushing for us to get physical media, it was my spouse. Of course my plex server the house probably helped. But after a few "forever" is only until next month, or shows completely disappearing altogether from any streaming, they started pushing for more physical media.
I've self hosted at least one domain for decades.
Initially self hosted email, webserver, and whatever else I wanted. But now I've started paying for some of the hosting.
If you want a really reliable service and aren't an sysadmin already, pay someone.
If you want to learn and do it yourself, go for it.
I still mostly host myself on a VPS node (Web, Blog, ssh git access, and DNS master), but pay to have email hosted. Server is a VPS at Linode I've had for probably nearly two decades. Email is hosted on Google Workspace so it includes calendar, address book, storage, groups, Google Docs, etc.