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.

  • @SpongederpSquarefapBEnglish
    1•7 months ago

    This is exactly it - storage is the best example

    Could I run all of my stuff using a cloud service? Of course, but it would be very expensive and only available if my internet works (and there’s a lot of hops between me and my data in the cloud)

    I can buy a 2TB HDD for £64 - most cloud providers charge that much per year for 1TB

    • @gallifrey_BEnglish
      1•7 months ago

      ideally youd buy like a 14-20 TB hard drive for less than 200 GBP. economies of scale!