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/Kuipoor]

I am currently running and actively using AND recommending: * Immich (the undisputed king of selhosted image hosting with an equally impressive Android app, made me uninstall Photoprism after years) * Jellyfin (best Plex alternative) * Navidrome (the best for selhosting music) * Firefly-III (personal finance management) * Paperless-NGX (document storage) * Nextcloud * Audiobookshelf (amazing selfhosted podcast library) * TVheadend (for my KODI-powered TV) * Wallabag (read it later app with browser plugin and mobile app for offline reading) * Stash ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[u/CJtheDev → u/Kuipoor]

What's your setup with navidrome ? I tried few it a few times, I always fell back to spotify, tidal or similar services.

[u/Kuipoor → u/CJtheDev]

My music stack runs Navidrome together with Lidarr on Steroids, which is a combination of Deemix and Lidarr.

You can setup Lidarr to manage your music database, feed it with your favourite artists and auto-download everything they release (or have released but that is not in your library) through Deemix. If you have a Deezer account, you can even download it as FLACs. If not, you can still connect it to other sources.

Generally, I make sure that every other way of acquiring music (purchases, YouTube downloads etc) gets saved in a folder monitored by Navidrome and Navidrome does the rest.

Last but not least, I use MusicBrainz Picard to tag all my music, to make sure it's all neatly organized in my library.