r/SelfHosting is a subreddit with 17k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses self hosting, server, selfhosting, docker, and vps.
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
Advice Requests
: "Advice for getting into Self Hosting"
28 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Cheap VPS hosting, best low-cost providers?"
26 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "We self-host everything and don't use Cloudflare, yet the outage broke our infra. Be careful with dependencies! A post-mortem"
6 posts
#4
Ideas
: "Voiden - Markdown-based, Open-source Alternative to Postman"
2 posts
#5
Self-Promotion
: "DoveFetch, a IMAP/SMTP server you can run yourself so you own your inbox."
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/SelfHosting
#1
Self Hosting
: "When were you thankful to be Self Hosting?"
78 posts
#2
Server
: "Game Server hosting by Beginner"
45 posts
#3
Selfhosting
: "Do you consider VPS to be Selfhosting? (why or why not?)"
41 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."
25 posts
#5
Vps
: "Cheap Vps hosting, best low-cost providers?"
21 posts
#6
Homelab
: "How to self security audit a Homelab setup?"
19 posts
#7
Self Hosting
: "New To Self Hosting - Use Cases? + Where to Begin?"
16 posts
#8
Ai
: "Does anyone self host Ai?"
12 posts
#9
: "How to self host an Email sever?"
10 posts
#10
Open Source
: "Do you only self-host opensource tools or also licensed closed source products?"
9 posts
Member Growth in r/SelfHosting
Yearly
+14k members(473.7%)
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Last updated: June 26, 2026