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.
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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.
For me it’s all the reasons but it started of as an educational thing for my job.
Stuff can disappear or stop being free at any time for no reason, with no notice.
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.
Sheesh could have made it top 2 or 3. Talk about tough
I like control and i like to do cool things. There is a reason I never let a friend manage or host an event to an unhealthy point of being stubborn.
I love my Lychee server, I love my Bitwarden server and I love my Minecraft server. Allows me to simply share it and have no issue or worry of it being looked at.
Education, sometimes better service, mostly because I just have fun with and regarding video streaming because I’m not willing to pay for every service existing.
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 :-))
Can I do all of the above?
It can be all those reasons.
For me it’s both Privacy, control and education.
The cloud is just someone else’s computer.
What about “it’s a fun hobby” or “for learning purposes”?
i’ve got extra gear so why not put to good use?
I’m going to say sort of all of the above, but not just across the whole board. Some services I host because I want a better service than is available elsewhere.
For example I host AdGuard Home and OPNsense because it’s better than my ISP supplied router and I get more out of it so that’s better service. I host Immich because I don’t want to pay Google to store all my photos when I have a server sat here that’s quite capable of doing it so that’s cost I guess.
Privacy, Education, Being Cool. Also, there are some services that are not available commercially.