r/SelfHosting is a subreddit with 18k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and ideas, and the community frequently discusses server, self hosted, self hosting, selfhosting, 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
: "Home domain certs: letsencrypt, or pki?"
18 posts
#2
Ideas
: "OpenLoomi: a self-hostable, local-first AI work agent (Apache 2.0)"
11 posts
#3
Advice Requests
: "Giving tips to myself from my self hosted journey (feel free to contribute)"
6 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "The weakest point of my network is my ISP"
1 post
#5
Money Talk
: "VPS hosting for small esports org, worth it or nah?"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/SelfHosting
#1
Server
: "Tinny installer windows 2025 Server kimsufi dedic Server problem"
7 posts
#2
Self Hosted
: "Giving tips to myself from my Self Hosted journey (feel free to contribute)"
7 posts
#3
Self Hosting
: "opinions on ZimaOS"
6 posts
#4
Selfhosting
: "Is this good for a starter in Selfhosting"
5 posts
#5
Vps
: "K3s is great on single node Vps"
4 posts
#6
Docker
: "Best FOSS forum software using windows Docker?"
3 posts
#7
Network
: "The weakest point of my Network is my ISP"
2 posts
#8
Panel
: "I kept forgetting what I set up on which server, so I built my own Panel to manage them all in one place best for small 1gb ram 1cpu servers."
2 posts
#9
Ai
: "OpenLoomi: a self-hostable, local-first Ai work agent (Apache 2.0)"
2 posts
#10
Dedicated Server
: "Looking for Dedicated Server recommendations:"
2 posts
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+15k members(458.7%)
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Last updated: July 11, 2026