This is purely for my own personal curiosity, but what’s the main reason you self-host? I say main because I don’t know how to allow multiple answers, if that’s possible at all. For me it’s the last option; because it’s cool. If it’s none of these reasons, absolutely make additional options in the comments.
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I started self-hosting a few years ago for privacy reasons. Now I do it for a mix of reasons. I got my current job because I was one of the only applicants who had experience using Linux outside of a classroom. Last weekend I spent a day learning how
podman play kubeworked because it was fun and because it’ll be useful to know for a new app we’re deploying at work.…it’s certainly not cost though. This shit gets expensive.
Sheesh could have made it top 2 or 3. Talk about tough
i’ve got extra gear so why not put to good use?
Cost and privacy. Currently selfhosting adguardhome. Something like nextdns or controld cost like $35-40/year. Mine cost nothing monetarily since its hosted on oracle cloud free tier. Only costed me like an hour or two of my time to set it up. Plus i don’t trust them enough to not sell my browsing habit.
I second this. My journey started with hosting Adguard Home. I needed an adblocker that would not need to run on my phone. Then, as I expanded, I discovered an entire world out there, that fulfills all of the OP’s choices. Now I run 2 separate servers, running a host of services. My wife, not a very tech-savvy person, also loves them as they are so simple, easy to use, and don’t randomly change.
TL;DR: Started out with a specific need, expanded for all of the above reasons and more.
Because hosting commercially with large (multi-TB) storage gets very expensive very quickly
Cost is kind of in the grey zone for data/media hoarders. Like, I bought two 16tb HDDs and that cost me a pretty penny. I could have used that same amount of money for streaming services (or whatever) and relieve myself of the pain of tinkering. Partially, it’s about saying fuck you to the giant corpos in my own little way, and a little bit is about just knowing how to get what I need without paying for them which feels neat. Sometimes I feel a little guilty doing this but most media are shit anyway, and I buy the things I really like so that’s that.
OP, your poll needs an “All of the above” option. That would be my choice.
mostly for fun, cuz i guess for some reason i enjoy having problems, but that leads to it also being for education. i’ve learned a lot maintaining these systems. and it’s just cool, i like being able to say i can and try out different software to see what works. i like the custom approach rather than a one size fits all society
Education, sometimes better service, mostly because I just have fun with and regarding video streaming because I’m not willing to pay for every service existing.
Can I do all of the above?
There’s no option for “all of the above” and also no option for “I just want to see the results”.
Cool and better - It’s cool when you got something working in your house and it’s better when it’s in your hands, rather than companies which declare limitless free storage for photos and videos, and then after some time and tens of gigabytes they decide to stop uploading more data, limit max size for file and charge you to pay for this service.
Nah, I’ll rather just buy this cool mini PC, components and storage for it once and will not pay infinitely for that sometimes changing crap service.Voted privacy - but more importantly (and not listed) “My services wont disappear with little or no notice”
Funny, that’s usually my biggest reason not to self host something. If my
serverpi dies, I don’t want to lose anything important.Of course, I have backups, but restoration is a hassle.
That’s how I used to be; but after a number of things that I enjoyed using got shut down I’ve just become so annoyed at the idea that I self-host out of spite. 😅
Stuff can disappear or stop being free at any time for no reason, with no notice.
It’s all of those. I’m not voting because I can’t decide what the biggest reason is, and there is no “two or more of the above” options to pick from.
The only one I don’t think applies to me is “Better Services” as many of the open-source/self-hosted solutions aren’t necessarily better than commercial options. Or they’re missing SSO support in the free/freemium/open-source tier.