In my personal life, I’ve always been the self-hosting kind of person. I think most of my friends are hugely annoyed by having to deal with my refusal to join them on platforms like Slack because I deeply value being in control of my own data.
As an experiment, I want to break out of my comfort zone for a pre-defined period of time (as of now, I decided to give it until the end of December) to find out how the experience differs, and how hard it is to move back to self-hosted solutions once I’m ‘trapped’ in a proprietary eco-system.
I’ve got my use-cases pretty well-covered, but I enjoy broadening my horizon - so I’d be interested in what services the community is using, be it chat applications (Slack, Discord, ..), project management tools / time management stuff (Trello, Taiga, ..), feed readers / read-me-later-organizers (Pocket, ..), filesharing / synchronization (I doubt I can get myself to use Dropbox though.), VCS, .. and so on. Whatever comes to mind, I’d like to know about it.
I’d like to turn it around and ask you what you have self-hosted? Always curious what people have chosen. :)
(not OP) I’m self-hosting Camlistore for backups (which has been working well so far) and a hacked-together RSS reader (because so many feeds only include a summary and a link to click through).
I host my mails (OpenSMTPd as MTA, Dovecot as MDA until the OpenBSD-developers show some mercy and come up with their own implementation of IMAP), my website/s (static placeholder and blog, both via httpd, blog’s Wordpress), instant messaging (XMPP via Prosody, used to run Mattermost for a while), my backups (Arq, to three different physical locations), file synchronisation (recently switched to Nextcloud from ownCloud), torrents (via Transmission - and yes, really not for piracy), .. I’m sure I forgot something.
Kerio and gmail for mail, wordpress for blogs, quitter, twitter and facebook for shouting into the formless void, pinboard for recording bookmarks.
I long ago gave up on trying to maintain stuff myself, but the impulse is still there. I just recently experimented with dumping IrcCloud and using WeeChat (via Relay) and Pushover for notification (which I found via this very site), but likely changing back shortly, WeeChat Relay clients on Android leave me longing for something better.
Communication.
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Woah, I use a lot of 3rd party stuff!
I use fastmail (generally like it) and Route53 (only because feature rich anycasted services dont have ‘individual’ plans, and others with smaller plans dont have a considerable anycasted reach. Route53 is the in-between for me)
Everything else I use is self hosted.