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What's the biggest reason you self-host? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Darkextratoasty@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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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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[–] jusepal@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cost and privacy. Currently selfhosting adguardhome. Something like nextdns or controld cost like $35-40/year. Mine cost nothing monetarily since its hosted on oracle cloud free tier. Only costed me like an hour or two of my time to set it up. Plus i don't trust them enough to not sell my browsing habit.

[–] SourceDocMD@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I second this. My journey started with hosting Adguard Home. I needed an adblocker that would not need to run on my phone. Then, as I expanded, I discovered an entire world out there, that fulfills all of the OP's choices. Now I run 2 separate servers, running a host of services. My wife, not a very tech-savvy person, also loves them as they are so simple, easy to use, and don't randomly change.

TL;DR: Started out with a specific need, expanded for all of the above reasons and more.