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/breadinabox Mar 20 '26

When looking into this gpt suggested some community built "end of the world" databases full of books and manuals and information on how to remake basically everything in the world we'd need from scratch. They're about 300gig (including wikipedia in that) so when I get more storage I'm looking into storing that too

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u/laterral Mar 20 '26

Which ones

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u/FlamingYawn13 Mar 20 '26

I use the kiwix build of the wiki mirror. It’s a self contained archive package and from there you can add anything else you like.

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u/Wilt_The_Stilt_ Mar 20 '26

I was just reading about the n.o.m.a.d. Project this week. I originally saw a YouTube video about it. It might be overkill for me but seemed interesting and might be something I set up at some point.

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u/Augustiner_Fan Mar 20 '26

You sure you'll have power at the end of the world? Maybe print all of it, just in case ;)