r/SelfHosting is a subreddit with 29k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses self hosted, server, hosting, vps, and agent.
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"
11 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "What Homelab services do you run and why."
4 posts
#3
Ideas
: "Homelab ideas"
3 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "HELP - My Gitea instance is under DDOS attack"
2 posts
#5
Self-Promotion
: "My Own Dashboard made by me"
2 posts
#6
Money Talk
: "Got $60k of credits to blow in 2 weeks, what should I build?"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/SelfHosting
#1
Self Hosted
: "My audiobook, podcast, eBook, and comic book self-hosting journey"
11 posts
#2
Server
: "r4ck: the Server search engine built for agents"
6 posts
#3
Hosting
: "Hosting a small static website and a git server"
4 posts
#4
Vps
: "Vps Developer Workflow/setup Tips"
4 posts
#5
Agent
: "Got Alexa talking to my self-hosted LLM Agent — the two undocumented gotchas that made it way harder than expected"
3 posts
#6
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"
3 posts
#7
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
#8
Channel
: "Built a free self‑hosted Channel manager for rentals — looking for feedback"
2 posts
#9
Storage
: "How do I set up media Storage?"
2 posts
#10
Homelab
: "What Homelab services do you run and why."
2 posts
Member Growth in r/SelfHosting
Yearly
+24k members(491.8%)
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Last updated: September 30, 2026