Getting into selfhost is so expensive now

I recently converted my old laptop into a ubuntu server running Casaos on top. I installed home assistant, adguard and vaultwarden. I heard about Immich and next cloud and got excited and started looking for A: storage and B: the option to build a server with 8TB.

I was shocked when i saw the price for PC parts especially ram and storage. it makes me think it might be best to pay google for my google one but wow I wish i could self host everything. This economy wont make be be great at all