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.

  • Simon-RedditAccount@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Can’t you just install this type of app to your phone or pc?

    For one instance of app, it’s possible to install it onto a single machine.

    Things get tricky when you want to access the data from multiple devices. Even trickier, when several people want to access it. After a certain point, it’s easier to have a “cloud” solution. And since “cloud” is just somebody’s else computer, why not make this a computer YOU own?

    • reubenbubu@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      if someone wrote an open source free solution for you to self-host i think its just rude not to use it. so self-hosting is just being polite