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If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm an English teacher who wanted to "cut the cord" wherever I could, so I started learning about domain hosts, containerization, .yaml files, etc.

Since then, I've been hosting several pods for file sharing and streaming for many years, and I'm currently thinking about learning kubernetes for home deployment. But why?

If you aren't in development, IT, cyber security, or in a related profession, what made you want to learn this on your own? What made you want to pick this up as a hobby?

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[–] 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I reached a breaking point with the number of SaaS that I was having to pay for monthly, so I started taking steps to eliminate my subscriptions one by one

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    That's interesting. Can you elaborate?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    I was paying for netflix, spotify, cloud storage, shared calendar software, the works. I've since moved my media watching to jellyfin, music to navidrome, storage to my server w/ offsite backups of critical files, baikal + open source calendar solutions. Anything I can replace with something I run myself, I do. And I'm always adding more. If you don't count the fact that I keep expanding the scope of my setup and buying hardware, I save lots per month in subs of various kinds

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Aah, I did not consider Netflix & Spotify. yeah that makes sense. I never paid for those either. But of course you can only self-host media if you first get it from somewhere*.

    I do wonder who takes money separately/only for calendar hosting.

    But yeah, all in all that amounts to a lot, and considering you can have a VPS with decent storage for under €10/mo. - it's really the best solution.

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