I don't fully understand how/why you guys selfhost some apps - eviltoast

I don’t have a home server yet but I’m exploring and sometimes I get confused about some posts here.

For example I saw a post asking for recommendation for a “self hosted budget management app”. Can’t you just install this type of app to your phone or pc? What’s the purpose here, will you host it and access it from a browser? Or do you only want to backup its data to your server?

I hope I don’t sound stupid please enlighten me.

  • terAREya@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    let’s take the budgeting app as an example. Here is what I want.

    1. Free
    2. open source
    3. Available anywhere on any device
    4. All data stored on MY equipment. No cloud provider or 3rd party

    The only way to achieve this is self hosting in my opinion.