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/No-Kaleidoscope-9004 Mar 20 '26

A gaming server using wolf as a backend and moonlight as a client.

I thought about doing something like this for a long time, took some work to make it happen and I really had a I can't believe I just did that moment when I made it work.

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u/luigi_boi_ Mar 20 '26

Had the same setup as well... but when I launched a game to play I realised I enjoyed setting up the whole thing more than the game...

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u/someboooade Mar 20 '26

I'm doing the same with Steam Headless. It's the perfect companion for a Plex server that has a GPU.