In a 2024 survey of the self-hosting community, 60% reported they did not donate to projects over the past year, highlighting a financial disengagement. The survey reveals growing interest in self-hosting, especially with tools like Docker and affordable hardware becoming more accessible. Sholly discusses the differentiation between home labs, focused on networking hardware, and self-hosting, which can be as simple as running applications on a laptop. As privacy and cost concerns push users towards self-hosting, the community grapples with ethical issues such as piracy.
60% of self-hosters have not donated to projects in the last year, reflecting a disconnect in the community despite increased interest in self-hosting.
Sholly highlights the distinction between home labs, which focus on hardware, and self-hosting that can be done on minimal hardware like a laptop.
Factors driving self-hosting's rise include privacy concerns, costs of cloud services, ease of access through various platforms, and the popularity of affordable computing hardware.
The self-hosting community is aware of the piracy aspect linked to its practices, which adds complexity to discussions on ethics and usage.
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