2025 Self-Host User Survey: Open for Submissions (selfh.st)
from tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 00:22
https://lemmy.nocturnal.garden/post/275915

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dan@upvote.au on 02 Oct 00:33 next collapse

Definitely going to fill this out once I get some free time. What will the data be used for?

tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden on 02 Oct 01:07 collapse

The results will be published on the website.

slazer2au@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 02:17 next collapse

And here are lear years results

selfh.st/survey/2024-results/

A_norny_mousse@feddit.org on 02 Oct 05:56 collapse

This one surprised me:
<img alt="0" src="https://i.ibb.co/3YmRcQvG/maim-2025-10-02-155145.png">
Otherwise I’m pretty much within the average. Except I don’t work in IT, but I already knew that makes me an outlier.

muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com on 02 Oct 03:20 collapse

Make sure to post them to this sub would love to review them

tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden on 02 Oct 03:42 collapse

It’s not my page but I subscribed to the RSS feed, will do if I don’t forget!

mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud on 02 Oct 00:51 next collapse

I may have skewed the results

InnerScientist@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 12:04 collapse

I though that was the point of surveys?

Sibbo@sopuli.xyz on 02 Oct 00:52 next collapse

People age 70 and up are not allowed to self-host, I see.

melroy@kbin.melroy.org on 02 Oct 02:56 next collapse

Yeah minda weird. Also nobody below 12 years old is also not allowed.

Cyber@feddit.uk on 02 Oct 06:51 collapse

Ah, but it’s how old you feel which is more important 😉

Maybe those statistics could be really interesting:

  • How old do you feel when using proprietary software?
  • How old do you feel when using FOSS?
blazeknave@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 09:54 collapse

B) I feel like I was much smarter when I was younger.

ragingHungryPanda@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com on 02 Oct 02:04 next collapse

filled! I’m looking forward to the results!

doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de on 02 Oct 03:09 next collapse

The question about the single most favorite self hosted software is impossible to answer.

Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de on 02 Oct 03:51 next collapse

Docker? Without it life would be difficult so self host

waddle_dee@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 07:48 collapse

Why is this? I’ve never used docker before and when I set up my server a couple years ago, I installed Debian, Apache, and MariaDB and got everything set up relatively easily.

madeofpendletonwool@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 08:21 next collapse

Because with docker you don’t even have to install and setup Apache and MariaDB. You run one command and it knocks out that whole process. Not go mention the security implications of completely seperating your software.

I can also speak from experience when I say it makes development and delivery of software soooo much easier. As a self hosted software developer I can promise you that if I created an instruction set to deploy the software I build bare metal rather than just containerizing it. No offense to fellow self hosters by any means, but if I require a multi step instruction set rather than a one liner docker command I will get more issues. Humans make mistakes, and when I can automate it out with container orchestration it absolutely makes it easier for the user.

waddle_dee@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 10:01 collapse

I appreciate the response! When I set out to self-host, I made the decision to install everything separately, because I heard about docker and it sounded like, “plug in code and run”. And that’s something I didn’t want, only because it was a hobby and I wanted to learn more from a hands on experience. I learned a ton, sorting through those errors! If I did it over again, I’d probably use docker, based on your explanation, but I feel like that is an endeavor, in and of itself.

Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de on 02 Oct 09:04 collapse

The problem is when one app requires a different apache(or some other random requisite) version than the other one, docker just deals with that so I don’t have to. That’s what I like about it.

waddle_dee@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 10:02 next collapse

I actually just had to deal with this! So, I ended up spending time troubleshooting and rewriting some .conf files for Apache.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca on 02 Oct 16:03 collapse

Dependency hell is self-inflicted, but sparkle-junkie devs are complicit: it’s their fault they don’t know of long-term-support enterprise OSes and don’t use one as a primary port.

keyez@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 05:08 next collapse

For me it’s Bitwarden, hosting their stack in 2018 right after getting my first job launched me into everything else.

tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden on 02 Oct 05:30 next collapse

I named Bookwyrm. There isn’t so much going on update wise, but it’s a fun software with a nice community

starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev on 02 Oct 06:34 next collapse

I struggled with that but for me i treated it as one I’ve been most hyped about this past year

Marthirial@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 15:45 collapse

I also had to think, but I went for CloudPanel. Fantastic server manager software from Germany. Reverse proxy my docker containers with it. Lean. Stable. Reliable.

Fuck cPanel or Plesk with their bullshit licenses.

t0fr@lemmy.ca on 02 Oct 05:15 next collapse

Done

wabasso@lemmy.ca on 02 Oct 06:36 next collapse

Is using Docker Compose considered orchestration?

tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden on 02 Oct 09:13 next collapse

I answered no since it mentions Swarm but I wasn’t sure either

paequ2@lemmy.today on 02 Oct 10:32 next collapse

I said yes. Then it asks what platform you use and I clicked “Docker”.

rmrf@lemmy.ml on 02 Oct 11:23 collapse

It asks this regardless of whether you say you use orchestration or not. I would say that docker compose, used as intended, is not a container orchestration platform as it provides no automated scaling or resiliency across nodes

paequ2@lemmy.today on 02 Oct 11:35 collapse

I guess it depends on what “orchestration” means to you… 🤔

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestration_(computing)

In system administration, orchestration is the automated configuration, coordination, deployment, development, and management of computer systems and software.

Docker compose pretty much seems to check every one of these boxes.

rmrf@lemmy.ml on 02 Oct 11:50 collapse

Eh fair enough

rmrf@lemmy.ml on 02 Oct 11:23 next collapse

No

mlg@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 13:05 collapse

“No”

– everyone using compose to orchestrate software deployments

spoiler

Yes it is, and there’s a age old joke about docker being used for configuration management, which doesn’t require a container system.

jacecomix@sh.itjust.works on 02 Oct 14:01 collapse

Pet peeve: had to check “Other” and write “None” several times but otherwise fun little survey. Results should be fun to look at.

gmalette@lemmy.ca on 02 Oct 15:00 collapse

You can also not answer questions by clicking next without an answer. I chose to understand “None” as skipping