Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services.

11419 readers

1 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules

No harassment
crossposts from c/Open Source & c/docker & related may be allowed, depending on context
Video Promoting is allowed if is within the topic.
No spamming.
Stay friendly.
Follow the lemmy.ml instance rules.
Tag your post. (Read under)

Important

Beginning of January 1st 2024 this rule WILL be enforced. Posts that are not tagged will be warned and if not fixed within 24h then removed!

Lemmy doesn't have tags yet, so mark it with [Question], [Help], [Project], [Other], [Promoting] or other you may think is appropriate.

Cross-posting

[email protected] is allowed!
[email protected] is allowed!
[email protected] is allowed!
[email protected] is allowed if topic has to do with selfhosting.
[email protected] is allowed!

If you see a rule-breaker please DM the mods!

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

What search engines do you use? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

8 comments fedilink hide all child comments

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/4448974

I've recently started using a self hosted SearXNG instance but I'm still using the search engines enabled by default (google, duckduckgo and qwant). What search engines do you have enabled or which ones do you feel you've gotten the best results with?

all 9 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whoogle. It's treated me well enough so far.

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

Same, run my own instance and only rarely need to go to Google for localized results.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right now, Google, DDG, and Bing. That combo is "good enough". I also have random issues with other ones timing out or other errors.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't DDG and Bing have basically the same results or has that changed?

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

I honestly don't recall. I've used Searx-NG for a few years now and only notice that there's a lot of overlap in the results among all 3 I have enabled.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Startpage.com for more than 4 years know I guess.

[–] thisisawayoflife 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Surprised so few people use Yacy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I know what it is but I thought its results weren't that good. I haven't actually used it myself but that's what I heard.