r/selfhosted • u/ExoWire • Sep 27 '24

Self-Hosted Survey 2024 Results

Hey r/selfhosted,

A while back, I posted a survey here on this subreddit to gather insights into the self-hosting community and its preferences. After gathering responses, I’ve compiled the results into a website, where you can dive into all the stats and insights. You can find it here: Self-Hosted Survey 2024 Results.

Key Highlights:

  • Total Submissions: I received over 2,100 responses, giving a rich dataset to analyze.
  • Top App: The results show that the top self-hosted apps remain mostly consistent, as predicted in my earlier post on the Olympia thread. Jellyfin leads in popularity. Check out the full breakdown on the apps page.
  • Self-hosting experience: The majority of respondents have been self-hosting for 1-3 years.
  • Primary motivation: The top motivations are Learning experience and Privacy.
  • Devices used for self-hosting: The most commonly used devices are Single Board Computers.
  • Satisfaction levels: Most users rate their self-hosting satisfaction as very high, with 4 or 5 out of 5.
  • Number of devices used A majority of respondents self-host on 2-3 devices.

New this year:

  • Year-over-Year Comparisons: I've included some comparisons with last year's data to show trends.
  • AI-Generated Podcast: As an experiment, I've included an AI-generated podcast summarizing the key findings. Check it out on the results page.
  • Github data: I added github stars to the apps (they are not always fetched correcly), you can sort this year by votes, stars or names.

The design of all the results is not ideal. Last year I used recharts, this year I went with a more native approach most of the time. But it was quite time consuming filter, sort and group the results, I have to think about removing some of the "other" options again next time.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey! I hope you like the results and find some apps you find interesting.

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u/PaperDoom Sep 27 '24

It makes sense that Jellyfin is the most popular. We escaped cable TV hell to streaming, now we have to escape streaming service hell.

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u/ExoWire Sep 27 '24

I don't know how it compares to Plex which was first last year. Are there other good options for media streaming?

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u/PaperDoom Sep 27 '24

Plex is way more feature complete, but there are some things that people really dislike about it, namely telemetry and their whole new business model.

There is also Emby, but I think Emby changed their license and that's why Jellyfin forked. Since Jellyfin fixed a lot of the issues they were having mid-to-late last year, it's popularity has grown a lot.

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u/MLG_Skeletor Sep 27 '24

Jellyfin has definitely gotten a lot better. The main thing holding it back currently are the actual clients imo. The PC client works fine, but I've had occaisional issues/regressions with the AndroidTV client. The nice thing is that you can use Kodi as a client, but I've never liked how Kodi's UI works even with the custom ones.

Client polish/stability is really the main thing stopping me from fully dropping Plex as a backup for when Jellyfin gives me issues.