1 yr. ago • 100%

What selfhosted service have the best "return of investment"

Hi guys,

What services do you think have the best return of investment? Where is it truly worth it to selfhost?

Cheers

29 comments

Vaultwarden. Been using it self hosted for 3 years.

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that depends on how high u value privacy

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Apparently some people consider their own time absolutely worthless because they see time spent setting something up, learning things, not as a investment.

I somehow doubt that OP was asking specifically about a financial investment.

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- Thanks dad.
  
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Photoprism, Actual Budget, TimeTagger

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immich is my Top 1

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- You like it better than photoprism?
  
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  IMO they’re currently about as good, but they still serve slightly different purposes; Immich doesn’t fully support existing libraries because they don’t support nested albums, and PhotoPrism doesn’t have a native official app and therefore only supports sync through 3rd party apps.
  
  One thing that is relevant to mention is that Immich uses OpenStreetMap in a way that isn’t kosher, and while they’re receptive to changing that, it clearly isn’t a priority to them. It doesn’t reflect too positively on them that they’d essentially abuse another (far more important) FLOSS project like that, while PhotoPrism has made it a priority to avoid such issues.
  
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  I tried it, It's the closest to Google photos, and that helps with the wife approval.
  
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Pi-hole

Torrent client (any) + related automation for scraping/moving media

Nothing else comes close, these two are essential for any selfhosted enthusiast.
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Domoticz for home automation

cloudflared for remote access

apcupsd for UPS automation

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Nextcloud.

Automatic Mobile photo uploads and calendar (with apps), where you are more independent from other companies. Your data are also private.

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I enjoy having my own SMTP server that I control.

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The big one for me will always be Navidrome (and the various *sonic forks before) because I have access to my music collection, and don't have to pay a subscription.

Vaultwarden I'll give another +1, especially after fighting keeping KeePass synced across devices. Plus I have control over it.

I'm sure throwing my torrent client helps because it's on a box that's always on and my computer can be turned off if we're talking cost of electricity. Or just general wear and tear on hardware.

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- where do you buy all of your music? Because if u dont, airsonic isn’t saving u money - it’s piracy.
  
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Seafile. I can get 1TB of cloud storage for the cost of a raspi and a 1tb disk. Can pay that off within a year easily.

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If you share purpose, then it will be easier to answer it. Do you want a self-hosted service for yourself or for the product?

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- Yeah, like my car. Most of the time I'm the sole user. It gets me where I want to be.
  
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If you dont already have backup, then that is it.

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Invidious, searchxng , Kuma uptime..

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Vaultwarden

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Everything that you host in your house with spare parts and does not let you pay for a dedicated online VPS

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Not email lol

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PBS is very bare bones, and requires a lot of manual CLI setup and config, and it can only receive ZFS Snapshots or bare files. At that point, ProxMox already has replication functions built in and then there's rclone to send it anywhere you want not just the PBS setup.

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Immich and Bitwarden (unified beta).

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Selfhosting Navidrome and pirating songs/music out of Spotify:)

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- Spotify has significant compression. Search harder me matey.
  
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Jellyfin and *arr will save you 100$ per month.

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The simplest but the most useful: Samba file server

Well, file servers in general, paired up with a VPN server and you have a literal multi-year use right there

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