I’m not affiliated with this in any way but saw it posted at the other place & thought fellow Lemmyzens might like to take a look.

I always find it quite hard to answer “favorite” apps as some infrastructure critical self hosted apps aren’t as sexy as others which sit front & centre so I feel they often don’t seem to get as much credit or attention (such as NGinX/DuckDNS compared to Immich/Jellyfin etc)

Hi everyone,

Like in previous years, I’m running a survey about self-hosting. The focus is on your favorite self-hosted apps, but there are plenty of other (optional) questions too. The top five app lists are free response fields, you don’t have to select the suggestions.

Link to take the survey:

https://survey.deployn.de/s/self-host-2026

Last year’s results

More info:

  • The survey is anonymous. Like last year, results will be published in aggregated form. I’m currently planning to publish them in December.

  • It takes about 10-25 minutes.

  • Some of you asked for more questions in the comments. I added a lot at first, then realized it took 45 minutes to fill out properly. So I threw some out again, but there are still quite a few. The survey now has a core section that mainly covers the MVPs (your 5 favorite apps), and you can switch on other modules if you want. Almost every question is optional and can be skipped. If you answer everything at a reasonable pace, it takes around 20 minutes.

  • The proprietary survey tool caused new problems every year, so last year I switched to HeyForm while the survey was already running. That wasn’t ideal for my purposes either, so this year the survey runs on a new app. It should also make entering your apps faster.

  • It’s still easier to fill out on a desktop computer.

Thank you in advance for participating.

  • Joelk111@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    16 minutes ago

    Data Hoarder 💾

    • Fleet: 6–10 devices · More than 50 TB
    • Motivation: Fun / the hobby itself, Customization & full control, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions
    • My MVPs: Immich, PeerTube, Ghost, Actual Budget, Home Assistant

    I create videos for YouTube/PeerTube and backup all of the raw footage. The actual storage count is currently 130TB in my main NAS with about 250TB for an offsite cold storage backup (as most of my data doesn’t change much) and on-site live-ish backup. I also have the benefit of being able to get reputable used commercial grade HDDs from work for $10/TB, even right now, it makes it way too easy. Shameless plug of my PeerTube instance: https://joeltube.com/ or @JoelKalich on YouTube.

  • einsteinsspeedo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    54 minutes ago

    Self-Hoster 🏡

    • Fleet: 2–3 devices · 21–50 TB
    • Motivation: Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Learning & experimenting, Privacy & data ownership
  • cnovel@jlai.luEnglish
    1·
    57 minutes ago

    Self-Hoster 🏡

    • Fleet: 2–3 devices · 1–4 TB
    • Motivation: Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Privacy & data ownership, Fun / the hobby itself
    • My MVPs: Actual Budget, Immich, Home Assistant, Nextcloud, Navidrome
  • BlueLagoon@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    1 hour ago

    Homelab Veteran ⚡

    • Fleet: 4–5 devices · 5–10 TB
    • Motivation: Fun / the hobby itself, Learning & experimenting, Cost savings
    • My MVPs: Audiobookshelf, AdGuard Home, Traefik, AMP, BookBridge
  • rustyricotta@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    1 hour ago

    Self-Hoster 🏡

    • Fleet: 2–3 devices · 21–50 TB
    • Motivation: Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Privacy & data ownership, Fun / the hobby itself
    • My MVPs: Jellyfin, Navidrome, Home Assistant, Pi-hole, Teamspeak
  • youmaynotknow@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    4 hours ago

    Self-Hoster 🏡

    • Fleet: 4–5 devices · 11–20 TB
    • Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Fun / the hobby itself
    • My MVPs: Radicale, Baikal, OPNSense, Home Assistant, AdGuard Home

  • vizzi@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    Self-Hoster 🏡

    • Fleet: 1 device · 11–20 TB
    • Motivation: Cost savings, Learning & experimenting, Privacy & data ownership
    • My MVPs: Audiobookshelf, Sonarr, Radarr, Mealie, Jellyfin
  • Freeposity@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    AI Pioneer 🤖

    • Fleet: 6–10 devices · 21–50 TB
    • Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Learning & experimenting
    • My MVPs: Portainer, Open WebUI, Ollama, Nginx Proxy Manager, arr stack
  • drive_desaster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    4 hours ago

    Self-Hoster 🏡

    • Fleet: 2–3 devices · 5–10 TB
    • Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Fun / the hobby itself
    • My MVPs: Pi-hole, Immich, Ollama, LubeLogger
  • bitwyze@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 hours ago

    Self-Hoster 🏡

    • Fleet: 2–3 devices · 5–10 TB
    • Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Cost savings, Fun / the hobby itself
    • My MVPs: Home Assistant, Pi-hole, WireGuard, tandoor
  • praxispotato@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    31·
    5 hours ago

    AI Pioneer 🤖

    • Fleet: 4–5 devices · 21–50 TB
    • Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Fun / the hobby itself, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions
    • My MVPs: Gitea, Grafana, InfluxDB, LibreChat, Ollama
  • raef@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 hours ago

    Data Hoarder 💾

    • Fleet: 1 device · More than 50 TB
    • Motivation: Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Privacy & data ownership, Customization & full control
    • My MVPs: Jellyfin, Radarr, Sonarr, Home Assistant, Immich