I don’t have a home server yet but I’m exploring and sometimes I get confused about some posts here.
For example I saw a post asking for recommendation for a “self hosted budget management app”. Can’t you just install this type of app to your phone or pc? What’s the purpose here, will you host it and access it from a browser? Or do you only want to backup its data to your server?
I hope I don’t sound stupid please enlighten me.
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- easy to use with multiple people
- easier to manage for multiple people
- easier to backup (since you don’t need to do backups per device)
- less hassle when you switch personal devices (or reinstall a laptop for ex.)
- You own your data (instead of a mega corp.)
- Less dependent on internet connectivity*, power outages*
- Its a nice challenge
- Its fun (some of us like the self inflicted pain that comes along with it ^sometimes)
*limited to outside factors like how much you actually self host and how much backup power you can store/generate.