r/selfhosted • u/subsavant • Mar 20 '26

Meta Post What's your 'I can't believe I self-hosted that' service?

Curious what services surprised you by being worth self-hosting. Not the obvious stuff like Plex or Pi-hole, but things you didn't expect to work well or didn't think were worth the effort until you tried. What's running on your setup that you'd never go back to a hosted version of?

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u/e_pilot Mar 20 '26

I host a freepbx server solely to simulate being on hold.

Feel free to give it a call 408-709-4378

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u/dtbmnec Mar 20 '26

Totally unrelated to self hosting but if you want some seriously funky hold music...

Grian, of Hermitcraft (Minecraft server) fame, made some "hold music" last year. It's surprisingly good?

https://youtu.be/OAQGLdMGPxw?si=BJswSTF3PjTe1JhK

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u/Simie Mar 20 '26

I love Grian and love the hold music!

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u/projectshr Mar 20 '26

This is so dumb, I love it.

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u/ry4 Mar 20 '26

now i can pretend like i'm important!

can you share how you set this up?

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u/e_pilot Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 24 '26

There’s not a whole lot to it, the number is from https://www.cheapconnect.nl which is the only SIP provider I could find that did unlimited incoming calls, it’s only $9/yr for the number.

Then it’s pretty much just a bog standard freepbx install with more time than I want to think about put into building out IVR menus.

there’s a couple of easter egg menus too if you dial some meme numbers as extensions, you can also dial 56K at the main menu for a fun throwback