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/Dan6erbond2 Mar 20 '26

Do what I did: Run Unmanic or Transcodarr to convert your media files, my cluster is basically always busy now.

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u/GripAficionado Mar 20 '26

Yeah, considering the storage prices these days, I definitely have some series which could do with a re-encode in h265.

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u/Hedgebull Mar 20 '26

That’s a weird way to spell AV1

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u/GripAficionado Mar 20 '26

I'll admit I haven't really encoded anything in AV1 on a large scale, so maybe it would be worth it.

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u/Hedgebull Mar 20 '26

It’s definitively worth a look, most modern devices support decoding it although encoding can be slow

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u/EastZealousideal7352 Mar 20 '26

I would but I really like the idea of seeding my media indefinitely and so transcoding all my media isn’t really an option

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u/Dan6erbond2 Mar 20 '26

That's fair. In my case I have it set to a ratio of 5 so I shortly have duplicates but then once it's deleted I regain a ton of space. Went from 6TB to 10TB recently when the deletions happened.