Submitted 2 days ago by tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden to selfhosted@lemmy.world
https://selfh.st/survey/2025-open/
I forwarded this to my neighbour who is really into self hosting, particularly home automation stuff - has a pretty awesome Home Assistant set up. First thing they said? “But I’m 70, this only goes to 69”
I told him in that case he must dismantle his self hosted servers immediately 😁
The question about the single most favorite self hosted software is impossible to answer.
Docker? Without it life would be difficult so self host
Why is this? I’ve never used docker before and when I set up my server a couple years ago, I installed Debian, Apache, and MariaDB and got everything set up relatively easily.
Easy Immich reply for me
I went with Jellyfin because it’s the one I use the most. It also gives me the most headaches, so it’s a mixed bag.
I struggled with that but for me i treated it as one I’ve been most hyped about this past year
i did searxng main thing i use that i host
I also had to think, but I went for CloudPanel. Fantastic server manager software from Germany. Reverse proxy my docker containers with it. Lean. Stable. Reliable.
Fuck cPanel or Plesk with their bullshit licenses.
I named Bookwyrm. There isn’t so much going on update wise, but it’s a fun software with a nice community
For me it’s Bitwarden, hosting their stack in 2018 right after getting my first job launched me into everything else.
Definitely going to fill this out once I get some free time. What will the data be used for?
The results will be published on the website.
And here are lear years results
Make sure to post them to this sub would love to review them
Pretty graphs and who knows what the creator of the (IMO awesome) page also does.
Pet peeve: had to check “Other” and write “None” several times but otherwise fun little survey. Results should be fun to look at.
You can also not answer questions by clicking next without an answer. I chose to understand “None” as skipping
There was one question where it wouldn’t let me do this. I think the media streaming question I had to click “Other”.
filled! I’m looking forward to the results!
Is using Docker Compose considered orchestration?
“No”
– everyone using compose to orchestrate software deployments
Yes it is, and there’s a age old joke about docker being used for configuration management, which doesn’t require a container system.
No
I put yes. Then it asks what platform you use and I clicked “Docker”.
It asks this regardless of whether you say you use orchestration or not. I would say that docker compose, used as intended, is not a container orchestration platform as it provides no automated scaling or resiliency across nodes
I answered no since it mentions Swarm but I wasn’t sure either
Oh lol I thought you were the author of the survey.
Done
I wasn’t sure what to put for NAS device. I built my own NAS solution, but it’s not an OOTB NAS, so I picked “no”.
I think if you mostly use it for being network storage, it’s included
Mine started that way, with Linux + BTRFS RAID + samba, then I added minidlna, then Jellyfin, then a bunch of additional services.
I think the survey should distinguish between an off-the-shelf NAS (Synology, TrueNAS, etc) and DIY, ask about filesystems/RAID (ZFS, BTRFS, EXT + software RAID, hardware RAID, no RAID).
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
People age 70 and up are not allowed to self-host, I see.
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 days ago
Yeah minda weird. Also nobody below 12 years old is also not allowed.
Cyber@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Ah, but it’s how old you feel which is more important 😉
Maybe those statistics could be really interesting:
blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 days ago
B) I feel like I was much smarter when I was younger.