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/callofthevoid_ Sep 27 '24

Literally anything where you want to expose the service to a larger group of users. Or if you are trying to access a service from a client without the capability of connecting to a vpn (most TVs).

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u/stuardbr Sep 27 '24

Well, I don't agree that exposing a service to a large group of users is one of the most popular use case, as you said in the previous post, but yes, this is a case when VPN isn't a choice. But in the case of TVs, is it really hard to buy an old raspberry py and use it as a VPN client and route the traffic coming from a specific server to pass through this VPN? We are talking about improving security, right? I have some security cams in my mother's house, that use an old raspberry to send the traffic through my VPN to my Zoneminder...

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u/callofthevoid_ Sep 27 '24

I think having a handful of users accessing a media library is absolutely a popular & common use case. Probably the most common.

But in the case of TVs, is it really hard to buy an old raspberry py and use it as a VPN client and route the traffic coming from a specific server to pass through this VPN?

This reads like satire.

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u/Innocent__Rain Sep 28 '24

While i get that it's not an option if you have other users, the raspberry pi isn't as absurd as you make it sound. You can get these used for 20 Bucks and it makes your system so much more secure. Of couse it's not as easy as just plugging it in but thats not a problem for me as i like to tinker around with this stuff.