I don’t have a home server yet but I’m exploring and sometimes I get confused about some posts here.

For example I saw a post asking for recommendation for a “self hosted budget management app”. Can’t you just install this type of app to your phone or pc? What’s the purpose here, will you host it and access it from a browser? Or do you only want to backup its data to your server?

I hope I don’t sound stupid please enlighten me.

  • @schakaBEnglish
    2•7 months ago

    Most of the time it’s just a hobby and I enjoy the challenge of solving a “problem” we have at home.

    But for payment related stuff, I prefer having control over my own data. Granted I upload encrypted backups to a Google Drive via duplicati for important data - so technically Google still holds my data. But they aren’t the ones in control and I have local backups too.

    Of course, I don’t back up terabytes of media. I’m considering backing up my own rips, harder to find stuff as well as my music (some, I don’t even remember where I got it, because it’s been on external drives for well over a decade).