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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.

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

I started self-hosting a few years ago for privacy reasons. Now I do it for a mix of reasons. I got my current job because I was one of the only applicants who had experience using Linux outside of a classroom. Last weekend I spent a day learning how podman play kube worked because it was fun and because it'll be useful to know for a new app we're deploying at work.

...it's certainly not cost though. This shit gets expensive.