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.

  • ilco1@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    mainly because its my nerdy hobby .

    plus i like the feeling of owning my own data

    and learning new stuff

    and it also is quite handy to just have a server to test if somthing is usefull to you self

    and can sometimes save you a little money .as you can host multiple things on one server

    instead of having to pay for multiple comercial services

    at the cost of your own time