r/SelfHosting is a subreddit with 21k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses self hosted, server, hosting, docker, and alternative.
All things selfhosting (hosted by yourself) for beginners and newbies. The scope of this community also includes discussion of hosting in general: homelabs, VPS hosting, colocation, dedicated, cloud providers, and managed infrastructure.
Popular Themes in r/SelfHosting
#1
Solution Requests
: "Which is better, Raspberry pi 4 or an old Laptop?"
31 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Cheap best VPS server hosting for OpenClaw recommendation?"
12 posts
#3
Ideas
: "With the recent world news, I want to start my own self hosting at home for movies, games, books, shows ect."
5 posts
#4
Money Talk
: "I ditched Azure for a self-hosted VPS and cut my hosting bill by 80%"
2 posts
#5
Pain & Anger
: "The weakest point of my network is my ISP"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/SelfHosting
#1
Self Hosted
: "Giving tips to myself from my Self Hosted journey (feel free to contribute)"
28 posts
#2
Server
: "How to setup my first home Server"
15 posts
#3
Hosting
: "where do you host long-running node.js processes?"
14 posts
#4
Docker
: "I built a self-hosted social media scheduler because every "open-source" option was really a SaaS free tier. Docker Compose, no Redis, ~180MB idle."
7 posts
#5
Alternative
: "A good notion Alternative for a Nas?"
6 posts
#6
Vps
: "K3s is great on single node Vps"
6 posts
#7
Self Hosting
: "opinions on ZimaOS"
6 posts
#8
Selfhosting
: "Is this good for a starter in Selfhosting"
5 posts
#9
Network
: "The weakest point of my Network is my ISP"
2 posts
#10
Media
: "Beelink ME Mini Performace (ZFS, Proxmox + Nextcloud)"
2 posts
Member Growth in r/SelfHosting
Yearly
+17k members(384.9%)
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Last updated: September 3, 2026