You might have heard some perks of selfhosting a webservice, notably about data privacy and such, but for me, the biggest advantage of selfhosting, specifically from my home, is that the ongoing cost is next to nothing, especially compared to subscription-based service, or even renting cloud/machine. As long as you have a spare computer, be it desktop or laptop, a LAN cable, and optionally a stable electricity supply (be it with UPS or your laptop’s battery as backup power), as well as willingness to learn how to set up and mantain your to-be hosted services, you can whip one up and running in a weekend time.
This is not going to be about my thoughts from what I have experienced managing a selfhosting machine, but merely list of what service I have run, or had in the past and now decomissioned. Probably gonna write some in the future, though.
Still running
- Navidrome - Music streaming service from your own library. Do contact me if you want access, temporary or not, to this!
- Vikunja - Collaborative task and project management. Set up for Pinandhita 論理型, my translation service since coordinating stuff only through discord is becoming more and more painful.
- copyparty - Small and quick filehosting system not unlike Nextcloud. Set this up so that I can access files easily between devices, and now that my first laptop is fully on server-duty it serve fully as a cloud storage service. I’m planning to open storage collabo in a manner of “family sharing” in the future once I can secure more storage and have better backup system.
- Actual (read more) - Single instance budget managerial service mainly using envelope budgeting system. I set this up after I gave up using google sheet to manage my budget.
- Linkding (public bookmark here) - Simple bookmark manager with sharing capabilities. Intended to replace my public link lists as well as personal link dumps/read later place.