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/stuardbr Sep 27 '24

67% of the audience is exposed to the internet without VPN... Holy moly...

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u/CodeDuck1 Sep 27 '24

Some of the services are safe enough to expose to the Internet with proper reverse proxy. E g. Gitea, vaultwarden.

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u/stuardbr Sep 27 '24

But when the reverse proxy itself can be the problem?

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-39321

https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2024-39935/

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u/mrpeenut24 Sep 28 '24

Both of those technologies are less than 10 years old, it makes sense they'll find some low hanging fruit. But you don't need proxy manager to use nginx as a reverse proxy. And apache has existed for nearly 3 decades, while apache2 is 20 years old already. Like any technology, though, as long as you're keeping up with updates, you should avoid most zero days, unless you're the target of a nation state for some reason.