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Be honest: Are you doing SelfHosting just for the sake of it - or do you have apps, that really improve your daily life? (alien.top)
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Hi all,

question to you: How many of your selfhosted Apps are improving your life? Which apps are you really using on a daily/weekly basis?

Many of my running containers are just for ... running containers.

Portainer, Nginx Proxy Manager, Authentik, Uptime-Kuma, Wireguard ... they are not improving my life, they are only improving Selfhosting. But we are not doing selfhosting just for the sake of it? Do we? ...

Many of my running containers ... are getting replaced by Open Source client software eventually

  • I've installed Trilium Notes - but I'm using Obsidian (more plugins, mobile apps, easy backup)
  • I've installed Vikunja - but I'm using Obisdian (connecting tasks with notes is more powerful)
  • I've installed Snapdrop - but I'm using LocalSend (more reliable)
  • I've installed Bitwarden - but I'm using KeePass (easy backups, better for SSH credentials)
  • I've installed AdGuard - but I'm using uBlock (more easy to disable for Shopping etc.)
  • ...

So the few Selfhosted Apps, that improve my life

File Management

  • Paperless NGX - all my documents are scanned and archived here
  • Nextcloud - all my files accessible via WebUI (& replaced Immich/Photoprism with Photos plugin)
  • Syncthing - all my files synchroniced between devices and Nextcloud
  • Kopia - Backup of all my files encrypted into the cloud

And that's a little bit sad, right? The only "Job to be done" self-hosting is a solution for me is ... file management. Nothing else.

What are your experiences? How makes self-hosting your life better?

( I'm not using selfhosting for musc / movies / series nowadays, as streaming is more convenient for me and I'm doing selfhosting mainly because of privacy and not piracy reasons - so that usecase is not included in my list ;)My only SmartHome usecase is Philips Hue - and I'm controlling it with Android Tasker )

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think it depends on the person. My self hosting is lean and mean - I don't bother setting up any of the complex meta-self-hosting stuff, my services just run on docker with port forwarding.

Additionally all my services are things I absolutely use daily. Very rarely does a day go by that I don't listen to audio books on my AudiobookShelf server, and my wife uses our Plex daily to watch her favorite shows, which also allowed us to ditch a few streaming subscriptions

If there's a cloud app that offers good value for the money - I use that instead, afterall self hosting isnt free, you pay with your time (and electricity bill, but that's negligible)

If you find that the only worthwhile thing you host is your file management stuff, why not just ditch the rest? There's no gold medal for "most things self hosted", the point is to make your life easier, not harder