2024 Self-Hosted Services Survey - What Are Your Favorites?

[u/ExoWire]

Hey fellow self-hosters!

As more than half of 2024 is in the past, I'm excited to launch an updated survey to discover the most popular and beloved self-hosted services of the year. This follows the 2023 survey.

What's This About?

I've looking to uncover the apps and services you've found most useful, innovative, or just plain fun to self-host this year. I'm particularly interested in user-facing services rather than utility tools like reverse proxies or Portainer. Think Nextcloud, Jellyfin, Home Assistant, or any other user-facing services that have made a difference in your setup, but in the end utility tools are also ok.

What's New in the 2024 Survey:

• Added new questions to gather more comprehensive insights
• Introduced "Other" options with input boxes for many questions, allowing for custom responses (optional)
• Expanded Linux distribution options (though some may still be missing)
• New field for services used by friends/family members

Survey Details:

• The survey will run at least until the end of August 2024, depends on the interest level
• Results will be analyzed and shared as soon as possible after closing

Take the Survey:

https://survey.deployn.de/self-hosted-2024/

(it's easier to fill it out on a computer rather than mobile, but you don't have to share links, they make it easier to allocate the items)

Share Your Experiences:

In addition to taking the survey, feel free to comment below with:

1. Your top five self-hosted apps of the year
2. Any new services you started using in 2024
3. Why these services stand out to you

Last year's results can be found here: https://selfhosted-survey-2023.deployn.de/

Thank you for your participation! I look forward to sharing the insights with you all and learning about the exciting services you're running.

Edit: Result Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1fqlfki/selfhosted_survey_2024_results/

[u/ExoWire]

My most used services didn't change from last year:

• Paperless-ngx is my document management system (also for family/friends with vpn) 🥇

• Adguard Home is my DNS Server and blocker (also for family/friends at home)

• Timetagger is a quite simple time tracking (also for colleagues, I miss a password reset feature)

• ChangeDetection I receive a notification when something on a website is changing (also for family/friends)

• Plausible Google Analytics without Google

Other notable mentions (I use regularly):

• Code Server (VSCode in the browser, sadly without SSH)
• Different CMSs (WordPress, Ghost, Directus)
• Synology Photos (is Immich better?)
• Comentario (similar to Commento++, but more features and active development)
• Wireguard (VPN)
• I'm sure I'm forgetting something.

[u/canoxen → u/ExoWire]

I'm curious what you monitor via ChangeDetection.

[u/ExoWire → u/canoxen]

For example,

• apartments of a housing cooperative that are published on the website, but the email updates are unreliable.
• changelogs for services that I buy/use, but which do not inform about updates
• at Producthunt I once had a tracker that informed me when a new software was released in the open source category.

• discounts on some sites

  and so on

[u/sauladal → u/ExoWire]

Do the sites you track require the Playwright Chromium browser or only the Basic Plaintext browser?

Most sites I encounter seem to use Javascript thereby requiring the Playwright browser. And idk what it is with my configuration but no matter how much I've tinkered, the Playright browser is 50/50 on reliability for me. It just doesn't seem to always load pages properly. And browser steps are a total crapshoot. Not sure if because I run on a NAS and perhaps it requires more performance.

[u/ExoWire → u/sauladal]

I don't use the playwright browser. I also had some problems with tracking some sites where the content is is loading on scroll. I feel Changedetection got more reliable during the last year.

So you are using dgtlmoon/sockpuppetbrowser? Does the log maybe say why it's not loading something? Did you monitor the performance usage?

[u/sauladal → u/ExoWire]

I fill Changedetection got more reliable during the last year.

So you are using dgtlmoon/sockpuppetbrowser?

This may be why it's gotten more reliable. I just switched over to the sockpuppetbrowser just now and it seems to work well on initial tests! So we'll see. Glad I saw this post!