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.
@ mods, if this in any way breaks any of the rules or just generally detracts from the sub at all, I’ll gladly remove it. Also I didn’t flair it because none of the flairs seem to fit.
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I voted for one but I would say all are valid and as important
When you use the service hosted by someone else there is a compromise on lot of features that you can have for free. Though the luxury of having privacy, security and learning while you dosel host cannot be discounted and above all free.
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
Cost. But I do not agree with ‘Whi would i pay for a service when i could host it myself for free?’
It is not ‘free’ it is cheaper. Today I got a quote from utilities company saying that api access to how much heat I use is 20 EUR/month a software defined radio recover is 20-40 USD + shipping. To do a full setup and research it takes about half of day some exiting HW and electricity but even summing all of that up. It is cheaper and utils company has already lied to me at least twice this year, so… their stacking motivation for me to independetly monitor the metering.
Mainly started off with using Plex since shows that I wanted to watch were simply not available on any service available to me. Now it gets used when the service where the content would be available craps itself.
Otherwise I use it to host a nightscout service for my diabetes management since the CGM manufacturer dropped support for an old phone I kept around for no other reason than to use the CGM since the new phone I had was never supported to begin with. Granted now the manufacturer came out with a standalone receiver, but why bother when I can just use my regular phone now?
I have not bothered to rank my many reasons. Why would I?
It can be all those reasons.
For me it’s all the reasons but it started of as an educational thing for my job.
I do it because “all of the above”.
D. All of the above. Mainly to learn but I wouldn’t put my self hosted services anywhere else.
Freedom !!
variety of content. who wants to pay for five plus services because there’s not one that has everything you want to watch/read/listen to
Many years ago I finally got fed up with having my favorite tools for productivity becoming obsolete or just disappearing. It was at that point that I decided to base my entire workflow on simple text files. The development of clouds made it much easier to adopt lots of self-hosted tools that could be based on text files, such as some apps in Nextcloud.
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.
Stuff can disappear or stop being free at any time for no reason, with no notice.