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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For me it’s both Privacy, control and education.
The cloud is just someone else’s computer.
Can I do all of the above?
What about “it’s a fun hobby” or “for learning purposes”?
For me it’s all the reasons but it started of as an educational thing for my job.
There’s no option for “all of the above” and also no option for “I just want to see the results”.
I started for education, around 20 years ago. Then, the “main” reason shifted to cost for a short period, and is now privacy (albeit education and cost still being in line :-))
Privacy and control are the main reasons why I host some of my data myself. This choice is closely linked to my values, as I’m not comfortable with the idea of entrusting my data to large companies whose only motivation is to make more money over customer satisfaction. I prefer to keep my autonomy.
However, simplicity is the main reason why I choose not to self-host certain elements. For example, I’m not yet ready to manage the self-hosting of my e-mails.all of the above + more???
Cost? when you look at price of equipment plus increase in power consumption, is it really cheaper?
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.
Cost, and control.
I want to own my stuff. And I want direct control over it. I want it to do exactly what I want, when I want, how I want. I’m sick of paying monthly rental charges, and I’m sick of companies making changes to services that negatively impact my experience.
My hardware, my software, my rules. Simple as that really.
Sheesh could have made it top 2 or 3. Talk about tough
Privacy, Education, Being Cool. Also, there are some services that are not available commercially.
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?
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.