Gifts for Home Server Self-Hosters

Self-hosters are skeptical of anything that requires an account or a subscription — they replaced Dropbox with Nextcloud, Netflix with Jellyfin, and Google Photos with their own network-attached storage. The gifts that earn trust here are the infrastructure pieces they keep deferring: a proper UPS to protect against power events, the NAS drive upgrade they know they need, or the book that explains what they are doing at the system level rather than just through a GUI.