Comment on Self-Hosting Survey 2026: What are your favorite self-hosted apps?
habitualTartare@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Top Motivation: Cost
The several hundred dollars a year and hours spend is definitely worth saving that $14-30/month in subscriptions right? right?
Right, $14-30/m actually adds up to hundreds and is less reliable.
I know, I know super duper clouds, six nines of availability for cloud services etc., yet github (for example) fails more often then my media/git/file/print server on 10 y.o. laptop with tens of terabytes of media and data, that is less maintened and exists in a far worse conditions (comparison is incorrect but the fact stays).
$14-30/month in subscriptions is $168-360/year.
You likely spend more than that a year on what you host (I know my power alone is going to run higher than that), but the monetary cost doesn’t cover the joys of the hobby, the knowledge aquired, and the fact that your shit still works even after the Internet goes out
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 days ago My wife spent about $130 for a year subscription to a service that she figured would always have her favorite show on it, because they own that show. Then like 10 seasons of it left for an exclusivity deal on another service. This was a contributing factor to pushing me into self hosting. Some of it is saving money, but some of it is also making sure you actually got what you paid for.
That’s $14 to $30 a month per subscription per user. I’ve got close to a dozen people using mine, most of which can very much not afford those kind of subscriptions.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Initial cost may be high. But I have calculated that my system. Would cost me 9 euros a month at 12tb of cloud storage. Something that I can’t achieve if I pay for cloud storage to a big man.
What brings me from clouds back to earth is current hard drives prices. Fuck AI.