Hey, c/selfhosted! Thanks to all who participated in my recent ‘2026 Self-Host User Survey’. This community contributed a bunch to this year’s increase in respondents (+52%), and I’m incredibly grateful for the support.

The results are visualized as usual via Chart.js. Happy to talk through any of the results or provide more details where things might not be clear.

New this year is a section on AI usage, a Linux distribution question, and the ability to overlay prior year responses on the charts for easier year-over-year comparisons.

Thanks again!

  • jabberwock@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    I really appreciate your efforts with this. I avoided selfhosting for the longest time because “there wasn’t anything I needed that bad” to learn it and sink the time.

    These surveys opened my eyes not just into cool projects but also things I didn’t realize were a pain that the FOSS community had already solved.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    Great data, thanks for doing this!

    I am pretty disappointed with the donation percentage. Pay for your FOSS, folks! Even if it’s just a dollar, every little bit helps, and you might make a small scale dev’s day. 🙂

  • ThreeKnew@lemdro.idEnglish
    4·
    4 hours ago

    You all should donate more. Even if it’s just 10usd a year or something. By the looks of it, there’s a lot of tenners to be gained

  • CaptainShardmind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    Ubuntu Server here, after a short stint on Proxmox that felt like extra layers for what I was doing with containers. I’m in the Nginx Proxy Manager camp too, running it on a small cloud VM with most of the hosts behind it limited to my Tailscale network, so only a couple of things face the public internet. On the forwarded-ports question, I’d guess a lot of people answered based on whether they opened ports at home, since a proxy on a VPS lets you skip that entirely. The year-over-year overlay is a really nice addition.

  • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 hours ago

    Sort of the state of modern video games: the ones you can self-host are just about all survival games. I have to go back almost 20 years to find a self-hosted FPS I enjoy.

  • Ooops@feddit.orgEnglish
    6·
    9 hours ago

    “Most respondents use a VPN or reverse proxy for remote access, while 15% still use forwarded ports in some capacity.”

    How was this question phrased? A reverse proxy still needs “forwarded ports in some capacity”…

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    14 hours ago

    That is a very close spread on reverse proxies.
    I also bet Forgejo is happy with that selfhosted number.

    Would have liked to seen the donations spread a bit closer.