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A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

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I don't fully understand how/why you guys selfhost some apps (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't have a home server yet but I'm exploring and sometimes I get confused about some posts here.

For example I saw a post asking for recommendation for a "self hosted budget management app". Can't you just install this type of app to your phone or pc? What's the purpose here, will you host it and access it from a browser? Or do you only want to backup its data to your server?

I hope I don't sound stupid please enlighten me.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

mainly because its my nerdy hobby .

plus i like the feeling of owning my own data

and learning new stuff

and it also is quite handy to just have a server to test if somthing is usefull to you self

and can sometimes save you a little money .as you can host multiple things on one server

instead of having to pay for multiple comercial services

at the cost of your own time