r/SelfHosting is a subreddit with 25k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses self hosted, hosting, server, alternative, 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
Solution Requests
: "Hosting a small static website and a git server"
16 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "What Homelab services do you run and why."
4 posts
#3
Ideas
: "Homelab ideas"
3 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "Why no love for LocalToNet reverse proxy/VPN mesh for self-hosting?"
2 posts
#5
Self-Promotion
: "My Own Dashboard made by me"
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/SelfHosting
#1
Self Hosted
: "Self Hosted alternative of PushEngage, One Signal"
15 posts
#2
Hosting
: "Hosting a small static website and a git server"
11 posts
#3
Server
: "r4ck: the Server search engine built for agents"
7 posts
#4
Alternative
: "Self Hosted Alternative of PushEngage, One Signal"
5 posts
#5
Vps
: "Self-Hosting n8n on a $5/mo Vps with aaPanel, Docker & Nginx SSL"
4 posts
#6
Agent
: "Got Alexa talking to my self-hosted LLM Agent — the two undocumented gotchas that made it way harder than expected"
4 posts
#7
Ai
: "Carrying context from agent to agent and Ai tool was unbelievably frustrating, so I built a local memory vault for agents with retrievable memory"
4 posts
#8
Cloud
: "What hardware do I need for Proxmox with Jellyfin in a container and some Cloud service (maybe trueNAS on a VM?, idk yet)?"
3 posts
#9
Firewall
: "Self-hosted Firewall for AI agents (Guardrail)"
2 posts
#10
Channel
: "Built a free self‑hosted Channel manager for rentals — looking for feedback"
2 posts
Member Growth in r/SelfHosting
Yearly
+21k members(440.8%)
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Last updated: September 18, 2026