Post by @Saltarello@lemmy.world

2026-09-27 12:53 UTC

Self-Hosting Survey 2026: What are your favorite self-hosted apps? I’m not affiliated with this in any way but saw it posted at the other place & thought fellow Lemmyzens might like to take a look. I always find it quite hard to answer “favorite” apps as some infrastructure critical self hosted apps aren’t as sexy as others which sit front & centre so I feel they often don’t seem to get as much credit or attention (such as NGinX/DuckDNS compared to Immich/Jellyfin etc) Hi everyone, Like in previous years, I’m running a survey about self-hosting. The focus is on your favorite self-hosted apps, but there are plenty of other (optional) questions too. The top five app lists are free response fields, you don’t have to select the suggestions. Link to take the survey: survey.deployn.de/s/self-host-2026 Last year’s results More info: The survey is anonymous. Like last year, results will be published in aggregated form. I’m currently planning to publish them in December. It takes about 10-25 minutes. Some of you asked for more questions in the comments. I added a lot at first, then realized it took 45 minutes to fill out properly. So I threw some out again, but there are still quite a few. The survey now has a core section that mainly covers the MVPs (your 5 favorite apps), and you can switch on other modules if you want. Almost every question is optional and can be skipped. If you answer everything at a reasonable pace, it takes around 20 minutes. The proprietary survey tool caused new problems every year, so last year I switched to HeyForm while the survey was already running. That wasn’t ideal for my purposes either, so this year the survey runs on a new app. It should also make entering your apps faster. It’s still easier to fill out on a desktop computer. Thank you in advance for participating.

Replies (21)

@503@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-28 04:59

AI Pioneer 🤖 Fleet: 1 device · 11–20 TB Motivation: Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Privacy & data ownership, Fun / the hobby itself My MVPs: Plex, Radarr, Immich, RomM, BookOrbit

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@habitualTartare@lemmy.world 2026-09-27 16:02

Top Motivation: Cost The several hundred dollars a year and hours spend is definitely worth saving that $14-30/month in subscriptions right? right?

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@UxyIVrljPeRl@lemmy.world 2026-09-28 05:26

Homelab Veteran ⚡ Fleet: 2–3 devices · 21–50 TB Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Fun / the hobby itself My MVPs: Jellyfin, Forgejo, Pi-hole, bookorbit, Transmission

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@ripcord@lemmy.world 2026-09-28 06:36

Data Hoarder 💾 Fleet: More than 10 devices · More than 50 TB Motivation: Learning & experimenting, Privacy & data ownership, Fun / the hobby itself

Open ##4935078
@opalbolt@lemmy.zip 2026-09-27 18:18

What is a physical device? I am a bit unsure in relation to this question. I mean. A server is a physical device. A router is a physical device A switch is a physical device Even my zigbee lightbulbs is a physical device Where should i draw the line?

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@darkreader2636@lemmy.zip 2026-09-28 06:56

Self-Hoster 🏡 Fleet: 1 device · Less than 1 TB Motivation: Fun / the hobby itself, Customization & full control, Learning & experimenting My MVPs: Nginx Proxy Manager, Tailscale, Karakeep, Immich, Syncthing

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@clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-28 07:33

Homelab Veteran ⚡ Fleet: 4–5 devices · 1–4 TB Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Learning & experimenting My MVPs: Jellyfin, miniflux, Navidrome, Authelia, beets I know beets is not something self hosted, but it’s very important for me, as I’m a music collector and like to have everything very well tagged.

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@Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-28 07:44

Self-Hoster 🏡 Fleet: 2–3 devices · 11–20 TB Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Fun / the hobby itself My MVPs: Home Assistant, Navidrome, Jellyfin

Open ##4937128
@Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 2026-09-28 07:51

Homelab Veteran ⚡ Fleet: 1 device · 11–20 TB Motivation: Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Privacy & data ownership, Learning & experimenting My MVPs: Nextcloud, Traefik, Jellyfin, Home Assistant, Audiobookshelf

Open ##4937315
@Branny@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-28 07:52

AI Pioneer 🤖 Fleet: 1 device · 21–50 TB Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Learning & experimenting My MVPs: Jellyfin, Navidrome

Open ##4937335
@dragonlover@lemmy.zip 2026-09-28 08:00

Fleet Commander 🚀 Fleet: 6–10 devices · 5–10 TB Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Learning & experimenting, Cost savings My MVPs: Authentik, Kavita, Continuwuity, Suwayomi, Nextcloud

Open ##4937555
@giant_smeeg@feddit.uk 2026-09-27 15:29

Eternal Tinkerer 🔧 Fleet: 2–3 devices · 21–50 TB Motivation: Cost savings, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Privacy & data ownership My MVPs: FreshRSS, Home Assistant, Radarr, Sonarr, Nginx Proxy Manager

Open ##4937769
@Strider@lemmy.world 2026-09-28 08:29

I wanted to do the survey, but at some point the ui is barely understandable (#10 or so) and I gave up shortly after. And that’s from a nerd.

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@menas@lemmy.wtf 2026-09-28 08:49

Community classics you run : 0 Edgy of edginess

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@Railcar8095@lemmy.world 2026-09-27 17:38

Somehow veteran isn’t the right word. Veteran kind of implies you have learned along the way, yet I keep making the same mistakes Homelab Veteran ⚡ Fleet: 2–3 devices · 5–10 TB Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Cost savings My MVPs: Immich, Jellyfin, Radarr, Sonarr

Open ##4938568
@phase@lemmy.8th.world 2026-09-28 09:27

Not reddit, but lemmy…

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@reader@lemmy.zip 2026-09-27 14:22

I can’t self host I’m not smart enough :-(

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@pranay@lemmy.zip 2026-09-28 09:51

Data Hoarder 💾 Fleet: More than 10 devices · More than 50 TB Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Cost savings My MVPs: Jellyfin, Linkwarden, Vaultwarden, Syncthing, Netbird

Open ##4938787
@IronKrill@lemmy.ca 2026-09-27 21:03

This survey definitely looks vibe-coded as heck lol but I hope the results will be good. My results :) Data Hoarder 💾 Fleet: 2–3 devices · More than 50 TB Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Customization & full control My MVPs: Immich, Baikal, Forgejo, qBitTorrent, Home Assistant God knows I wasn’t going to put cost as a motivation… I am actively losing money running double the storage I am using and 100+ GB of RAM on a Xeon chip, but having the headroom is certainly nice and has allowed me to expand as much as I want. Getting a good deal a couple of years back before the price explosion was a huge stroke of luck. If this server ever failed I could figure out a smaller operation with more confidence.

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@praxispotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-28 13:36

AI Pioneer 🤖 Fleet: 4–5 devices · 21–50 TB Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Fun / the hobby itself, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions My MVPs: Gitea, Grafana, InfluxDB, LibreChat, Ollama

Open ##4947123
@smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2026-10-04 07:24

Fleet Commander 🚀 Fleet: 6–10 devices · 11–20 TB Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Learning & experimenting My MVPs: Jellyfin, Home Assistant, Immich, Proxmox VE, nixos-mailserver

Open ##4991131