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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  • primalbluewolf@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    There’s no option for “all of the above” and also no option for “I just want to see the results”.

  • vogelke@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Stuff can disappear or stop being free at any time for no reason, with no notice.

  • PristinePineapple13@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    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

  • HellDuke@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    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?

  • dx3756@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Cool and better - It’s cool when you got something working in your house and it’s better when it’s in your hands, rather than companies which declare limitless free storage for photos and videos, and then after some time and tens of gigabytes they decide to stop uploading more data, limit max size for file and charge you to pay for this service.
    Nah, I’ll rather just buy this cool mini PC, components and storage for it once and will not pay infinitely for that sometimes changing crap service.

  • PovilasID@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    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.

  • ChrunedMacaroon@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Cost is kind of in the grey zone for data/media hoarders. Like, I bought two 16tb HDDs and that cost me a pretty penny. I could have used that same amount of money for streaming services (or whatever) and relieve myself of the pain of tinkering. Partially, it’s about saying fuck you to the giant corpos in my own little way, and a little bit is about just knowing how to get what I need without paying for them which feels neat. Sometimes I feel a little guilty doing this but most media are shit anyway, and I buy the things I really like so that’s that.

  • DARKEASC@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Privacy, it is almost impossible in the modern era. But still a bit more under control

    Security, it is an illusion, very hard to keep on security

    Cost, the hardware, time invested and energy may be higher than standard services

    Education, good reason

    Because it is cool, yeah it is

    Better services, disagree, they are not better, usually clumsy and high maintenance, may work as intended or lack features

    There is a simpler reason I like self hosting, I don’t want to be subject to the mercy of the changing of rules of a tool I can’t manage. Possible closure, increasing cost, features by tiers, I really hate subscription models.