1d ago

2025 Self-Host User Survey: Open for Submissions

selfh.st

43 comments

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 😁
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).
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".
People age 70 and up are not allowed to self-host, I see.
- Yeah minda weird. Also nobody below 12 years old is also not allowed.
- Ah, but it's how old you feel which is more important 😉
  Maybe those statistics could be really interesting:
  How old do you feel when using proprietary software?
  How old do you feel when using FOSS?
  
  B) I feel like I was much smarter when I was younger.
The question about the single most favorite self hosted software is impossible to answer.
- 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 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 struggled with that but for me i treated it as one I've been most hyped about this past year
- 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.
- 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
  https://selfh.st/survey/2024-results/
filled! I'm looking forward to the results!
Is using Docker Compose considered orchestration?
- "No"
  -- everyone using compose to orchestrate software deployments
- No
- I said 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 may have skewed the results
- I though that was the point of surveys?

43 comments